glabrous, or with a microscopic pubescence on the leaves. 
Leaves very variable, sometimes quite simple, one to one 
and a half inch long, very narrowly linear, apiculate, at 
others with one rarely two pair of linear leaflets on a 
slender petiole, dark green, spreading. Flowers whorled 
at the leaf-axils, usually in fours or sixes, drooping, sub- 
globose, bright scarlet, one-third to one-half:inch in dia- 
meter; peduncles as long as the flower or longer, minutely 
bibracteate about the middle. Calyx with a turbinate base, 
and four minute rounded green sepals, each with a strong 
dorsal keel ending in a mucro. Petals broadly ovate, 
concave, subacute, thick, glabrous without, sparsely pubes- 
cent within. Filaments eight; the four longer stout, 
incurved, with dark anthers; the four smaller very short, 
with yellow anthers. Ovary short, pubescent, with a stout 
short cylindric style contracted at the base.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Portion of leaf, showing the minute pubescence; 2, peduncle, bracts and 
flower, with the petals removed ; 3, flower with the perianth removed; 4, disk and 
ovary ; 5, vertical section of ovary :—all enlarged. 
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