the thyrse is more dense, the leaves more narrowed at each 
end and shining above, and the stipules with a longer point, 
matters rather of individual than varietal value in the 
genus. The same authors describe the flower as orange- 
coloured at first, and then atrosanguineous; those of the 
plant cultivated at Kew are of a pure bright scarlet. 
Desor. A shrub, everywhere quite glabrous, with stiff 
terete branches. Leaves about a foot long by one and a 
half to two inches broad, shortly petioled, linear-oblong to 
oblong-lanceolate, usually acuminate, undulate, base at- 
tenuate, bright green above, paler beneath, base often 
unequal; nerves very variable in number and direction, 
eleven to eighteen pair, spreading or ascending, arched or 
nearly straight; petiole very stout, one-half to three- 
quarters of an inch long; stipules short, much broader 
than long, mucronate, connate to or beyond the middle. 
Thyrse subsessile, globose or nearly so, eight inches in 
diameter; flowers innumerable, hiding the ramifications, 
scarlet, shortly pedicelled, pedicel jointed above the minute 
opposite bracts. Calyz minute, short, shortly and obtusely 
four-lobed. Corolla-tube one and a half inch long, very 
slender, not enlarged below the limb; lobes nearly half an 
inch long, lanceolate, obtuse. Anthers long, connective 
acuminate. Style exserted, with two short recurved 
lobes.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Calyx ; 2 and 3, front and back view of anthers; 4, apex of style and 
stigmas :—al/ enlarged. 
