long, lanceolate, long-acuminate, obtusely serrate, green 

 above, brown-purple below, with very prominent veins. Pe- 

 duncles axillary, patent, few-flowered, rather longer than the 

 petioles. Bracts linear ; bracteoles none, or one or two subu- 

 late. Calyx half to three-fourths of an inch long, divided 

 below the middle into subulate, erect lobes. Corolla scarlet, 

 two to two and half inches long, erect ; tube slender, slightly 

 curved, gradually dilated upwards, compressed ; lobes recurved 

 or revolute. Anthers shortly oblong, two-celled ; cells con- 

 tiguous, red-purple. Ovary glandular. — J. D. II 



Fig. 1. Calyx and bracteole. 2. Stamens. 3. Anther. 4. Ovary:— all 

 magnified. 



