Peduncle erect, central, a foot long, bright red, hidden, 

 except at the top, by the erect imbricated green bract- 

 leaves. Panicle oblong-deltoid, bipinnate, half a foot long ; 

 branches numerous, spreading, distichous, subsessile, an 

 inch or an inch and a half long ; flower-bracts broad ovate, 

 pink, a quarter of an inch long, adnate to the rachis except 

 at the cuspidate tip. Ovary as long as the bract; calyx- 

 segments horny, ovate-lanceolate, cuspidate. Petals oblong- 

 spathulate, connivent, twice as long as the calyx- segments, 

 pink fading to lilac. Stamens and style not protruded 

 beyond the petals. — J. G. Baker. 



Fig. 1, An entire flower ; 2, a petal and stamen ; 3, back view of a stamen ; 

 4, pistil : — all more or less enlarged. 



