Desce. Bootstoch stout, woody. Leaves sparsely pilose 

 with long spreading hairs, petiole three to six inches long, 

 very slender, hirsute towards the base ; limb two to two and 

 a half inches in diameter, membranous, orbicular, deeply 

 cordate at the base with a narrow sinus and rounded lobes, 

 pubescent on both surfaces, margin shallowly five- to seven- 

 lobed, lobes with three to five very broad mucronate teeth, 

 deep green above, paler beneath. Scape twice as long as 

 the petioles or more, very slender, pilose below, glandular- 

 pubescent above, as is the panicle, naked or with a minute 

 narrow entire or pinnatifid leaf. Panicle with the top and 

 slencler branches drooping and often secund ; bracts small, 

 the lower green and pinnatifid, the upper slender entire 

 and coloured. Flowers four to six at the ends of the 

 branches, half an inch long, pendulous from short slender 

 pedicels, scarlet, glandular-pubescent ; bracteoles slender, 

 linear. Calyx campanulate ; lobes short, rounded, glandular- 

 pubescent without and within. Petals minute, almost 

 included, linear-spathulate. Stamens short. Ovary half- 

 superior ; styles short. — J. D. H. 



Pig. 1, Calvx laid open ; 2, petal ; 3 and 4, stamens ; 5, ovary : — all enlarged. 



