the plant in 1859 from Mr. Linden, of Brussels. It requires 

 the heat of a warm greenhouse, and should be placed in a large 

 pot, which ought to stand on a bracket or shelf near the glass ; 

 in this way the branches will hang down gracefully, and flower 

 abundantly." 



Descr. A straggling shrub, of some few feet in the spread of 

 its branches, which are much elongated and pendent, well clothed 

 with coriaceous, distichous, evergreen leaves, two inches or rather 

 more in length, ovate or oblong-ovate, shortly petiolate, obtuse, 

 entire, with three principal nerves, thick and coriaceous ; young 

 leaves particularly delicate, semipellucid, purplish-red. 'Hwjlowers 

 are all drooping, most copious, in fascicles from beneath the leaves 

 of the pendent branches, and in a measure concealed by them. 

 Peduncles half to three-quarters of an inch long, clavate, and on 

 the apex of these the calyx is articulated, five-winged, minutely 

 five-toothed, with the tube incorporated with the ovary, purplish- 

 green. Corolla nearly an inch and a quarter long, bright scarlet, 

 yellow towards the mouth, tubular, but contracted below the 

 small limb, so as to be tubuloso-ventricose, longitudinally five- 

 angled ; the limb is of five small, acute, slightly spreading cili- 

 ated lobes. Stamens: /Moments live, broad-oblong, slightly co- 

 adunate. Anthers large, oblong, two-celled, tapering upwards 

 into a long tube, and opening each by one pore or slit at the 

 apex (our artist has by mistake represented two). Style nearly 

 as long as the corolla, slender ; stigma obtuse. Frail globose, 

 waxy and subpellucid. 



Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Summit of the peduncle, calyx, and pistil. 3. Two of 

 the anthers (the filaments forming part of the staminal tube) : — more or less 

 magnified. 



