of the Royal Botanical Garden of Calcutta, in March 1883, 

 and the plant flowered in Juno of the present year. 



Duscr. Stem erect or suberect, ten to eighteen inches 

 high, with a line of retrorse hairs down one side. Leaves 

 four to eight inches long, linear-lanceolate, acute, quite 

 entire, margins ciliate with long very slender prickles, nerves 

 parallel ; cauline opposite, shorter, broader towards the 

 base, recurved. Spikes subcapitate, subtended by oppo- 

 site bract-leaves tinged with red, few-flowered. Flowers 

 sessile. Involucel with a short broad terete subcampanu- 

 late tube, membranous, hairy ; mouth truncate with twelve 

 to twenty erect unequal ciliate teeth or bristles, which 

 are shorter than the calyx-teeth. Calyx rather longer 

 than the involucel, tube terete ; mouth oblique, obscurely 

 two-lipped, five-lobed, lobes erect triangular ovate ciliate, 

 tips spinescent. Corolla one inch long, bright rose-red, 

 crimson at the bases of three or four of the lobes, tube hairy, 

 incurved, slender below, dilated under the flat nearly 

 regular limb, which is half an inch in diameter, with or- 

 bicular-obcordate subequal lobes. Stamens four, within 

 the corolla-tube, filaments very short, and anthers subequal. 

 Stigma discoid. — J. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Flower and involucel ; 2, cah-x. style and stigma; 3, coro'la laid open ; 

 4, vertical sectiou of base of calyx and ovary : — all enlarged. 



