hemispherical bush: bark of the older branches dark brown 
and rather rough, of the younger shoots smooth and green. 
Leaves opposite, stemclasping (or rather appearing so, for 
in fact they have a short upright close-pressed petiole, 
above which the base of the leaf is bent so as to form a 
slight simis that stands close to the branch, looking as if it 
surrounded or clasped part of one side of it), oblong, ob- 
tuse, with a small point, entire, firm, smooth on both sides: 
stipules interfoliaceous, annular, with a subulate process on 
each side. Corymbs terminal, crowded, repeatedly divided, 
divisions short, (pedicles very short). Flowers numerous, 
bright crimson-scarlet; or scarlet et first and afterwards 
crimson: bractes opposite, conic, acute. Calyx 4-toothed, 
coloured, permanent. Corolla: tube long (twice the length of 
the limb or more), slender; segments ovate, rather obtuse, 
spreading. Filaments short (red), inserted without the mouth 
of the tube, spreading: anthers linear (lanceolate adnate in- 
wards, thrice longer than filaments, mucronate). Germen 
2-celled, one ovulum in each cell attached to the middle of 
the partition: style length of the tube; stigma (clavately con- 
tinuous, deep red, oblong) bifid. Berry spherical, as big as 
a large pea, smooth, fleshy, when ripe purple, 2-celled: 
seeds solitary, oval, convex on the outside, flat with a deep 
dint on the inside; coats two, outer nucamentaceous, inner 
membranous; albumen of the shape of the seed, cartilaginous, 
rudiment of the future plant erect, curved, nearly as long as 
the albumen: cotyledons uniform, cordate; radicle inferior, 
cylindrical, longer than the cotyledons.” 
* Differs from grandiflora (see vol. 1. fol. 154), in being 
a very full-branched spreading bush; while that is much 
thinner of branches and a tall arborescent shrub; in having 
apparently stemclasping obtuse leaves, while in that they 
are sessile and sharp-pointed, without any appearance of 
clasping the branches; in having ovate bluntish segments to 
the corolla, while in that they are ovately lanceolate and 
pointed; and lastly by the berry being crowned with an 
open permanent calyx, while in that the calyx is closed by 
the conically converging segments." 
