1841, t. 70; differing chiefly in the shorter and more com- 

 pressed tube of the calyx. This compression is very re- 

 markable, so that, in one direction, the diameter of the 

 tube does not appear to be half what it is in another : in 

 both species, too, the calycine segments and petals are 

 green. F. splendens is a native of Mexico, first described 

 by Zuccarini, probably from Schiede and Deppe's speci- 

 men ; Hartweg gathered it at Totontepeque, at an elevation 

 of 10,000 feet above the level of the sea: I have native 

 specimens from Linden, collected at Chamula; and from 

 Skinner, obtained, I presume, in Guatemala. It is still, I 

 believe, treated as a hardy greenhouse plant, growing 

 vigorously, and flowering early during the summer months; 

 and probably it may prove sufficiently hardy to bear our 

 winters : though it would, in all likelihood, always die 

 down nearly to the ground. 



Descr. A branched, suffruticose plant, with handsome, 

 delicate, ovato-cordate leaves of a pale-green colour. Pe- 

 duncles filiform, solitary, axillary, single-flowered. Flowers 

 drooping. Calyx an inch and a half long, scarlet, tipped 

 with pale green, remarkably compressed in the tube just 

 above the swollen base. Petals shorter than the calycine 

 segments, ovate. Stamens much protruded : Anthers yel- 

 low. Style longer than the stamens : stigma capitate. 



