from the cooler regions of the Andes, may be expected to 

 grow in a temperate house. The present is a very choice 

 plant, and succeeds well in a warm greenhouse, when it is 

 very attractive. 



Descr. A small bush, three feet high, branching from the 

 base. Stem and branches pubescent with spreading leaves, 

 purplish-brown, slender, flexuous, but apparently not scan- 

 dent. Leaves alternate, on slender petioles three-quarters of 

 an inch long, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, acute or 

 rounded at the base, irregularly minutely toothed or serrate, 

 dark green and glabrous above, paler and pilose beneath, ra- 

 ther coriaceous ; nerves very faint. Pedicels axillary, solitary, 

 slender, as long as the petioles. Flotvers drooping, decurved, 

 bright scarlet. Calyx glabrous, small ; tube turbinate or 

 subcampanulate, angled; teeth very small. Corolla almost 

 two inches long, scarce half an inch broad at the broadest 

 part, laterally compressed, ribbed, lower quarter narrower, 

 subcylindric, with an inflated base, remaining three-quarters 

 gently swelling, arched ; lobes one-third of an inch long, 

 triangular-lanceolate, recurved. Anthers exserted, violet- 

 purple, nearly glabrous. Style very slender, stigma small. 

 — /. D. H. 



Pig. 1. Calyx, ovary, and style : — magnified. 



