lets. Leaves opposite, often remote, short-petioled, from 

 oblong to lanceolate, entire, smooth, acuminate, 5-6 inches 

 long, 2-3 broad. Stipules interfoliaceous, acute. Corymbs 

 terminal, when they first appear, but long before all the 

 blossoms expand a branchlet shoots forth from each side, 

 and places them in the fork ; divisions subtrichotomous and 

 short. Mowers large, mouth of the tube lively red, the rest 

 a bright pink, somewhat fragrant, and highly ornamental. 

 Bractes opposite, triangular, acute. Calyx 5-leaved ; leaflets 

 oblong, smooth, permanent, with a smooth gland at the 

 top. Corolla funnelform ; tube nearly 2 inches long, slender, 

 even, except at the faux, where it swells considerably, 

 orifice highly coloured and pubescent ; segments of the limb 

 obovate, oblong, equal; Filaments short, inserted round the 

 bottom of the faux; anthers sagittate enclosed within the faux. 

 Germens 2, or single and 2-lobed, superior, villous on the 

 sides where they meet, a small subulate scale covering the 

 fissure on each side ; lobes or germens singly 2-celled, with 

 one ovulum in each, attached to the middle of the partition : 

 style nearly as long as the tube ; stigma large with a 2-lobed 

 apex, which is lodged in the dome formed by the converg- 

 ing of the anthers. 



