lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, very unequal at 

 the base, the larger lobe rounded, acutely doubly serrate and 

 obscurely lobulate, feather-veined, bright-green above, with 

 red margins, pale below. Stipules oblong-lanceolate, toothed, 

 recurved, green. Peduncles axillary, one inch long, two- 

 flowered, male and female. Bracts green, broadly ovate, 

 cucullate, toothed. Pedicels one inch long, red. Floivers 

 drooping, bright cinnabar-scarlet ; S two inches long, with 

 four lanceolate perianth-leaflets two inches long, ? with five 

 half as long. Stamens united into a long conical column ; 

 anthers small, oblong, yellow. Ovary three-winged ; styles 

 three ; stigmas two-lobed, lobes with a spiral band that is 

 continuous at their bases. Placentas bifid, with ovules on 

 both surfaces of the segments. — /. D. H. 



Fig. 1. Staminal column. 2 and 3. Stamen. 4. Pistil. 5. Transverse 

 section of ovary : — all magnified. 



