dentation not reaching to the middle, somewhat recurved 

 at the edge, ribbed underneath and reticulately veined, the 

 uppermost often disposed in whorls of threes and fours. 

 Flowerheads terminal, solitary, elongatedly cylindrical (four 

 inches long and rather more than one in diameter), sticky 

 to the feel from the honeyed liquid that overruns the co- 

 rojlas. Lower extrafloral bractes of the flowerheads larger, 

 une<iual, elongated, few, close-pressed, dark brown, thick 

 obtuse and tomentose : inferfloral ones shaggily furred and 

 of a reddish rusty brown colour. Corolla sericeous, little 

 more than half an inch long; ungues pale greenish yelloW; 

 blades ovally oblong, tawny yellow. Sft/le pale, smooth^ 

 scarcely at all enlarged at the end, hardly longer than 

 the corolla: stigma scarcely thicker, short, conical, ob- 

 tuse, whit^, smooth. 



A greenhouse plant, of easy culture. 



