coarsely irregularly toothed or sinuate, narrowed into a 

 petiole one to two inches long, quite glabrous except the 

 upper floral ones, which are often variegated with bright 

 red. Racemes six to ten inches long, nodding, copiously 

 leafy, softly tomentose with spreading red -purple hairs; 

 bracts or floral leaves pubescent, f alcately recurved, petioled, 

 the lower often flowerless or with imperfect flowers ; in 

 some racemes all are bright red, one to one and a half inch 

 long and secund, in others they are all foliaceous and 

 narrowly lanceolate, long-acuminate, two to three inches 

 long, and green mottled with bright red, or scarlet tipped 

 with green. Flowers shortly pedicelled, drooping, one and 

 a half to two inches long. Calyx nearly an inch long, 

 pubescent, bright red ; tube short, subglobosely campanu- 

 late ; segments lanceolate from a broad base, finely acumi- 

 nate. Corolla pale sulphur-yellow, subcylindric, slightly 

 recurved, sparsely hairy except the short contracted portion 

 of the tube within the calyx ; lobes short, broadly ovate, 

 obtuse, recurved. Filaments exserted, then contorted, and 

 recurved, hairy at the base ; anthers oblong, yellow. Ovary 

 obovoid ; style slender, hairy ; arms very slender. Fruit 

 globose, seated on the spreading scarlet calyx, three- 

 quarters of an inch in diameter ; epicarp shining, papery ; 

 sarcocarp thin, enclosing two crustaceous pyrenes. — /. D.B. 



Fig. 1, Calyx; 2, corolla and stamens ; 3, base of corolla laid open, showing the 

 insertion of the stamens ; 4, anthers; 5, ovary and base of calyx; 6, top of style 

 and its arms : — all enlarged. 



