Avery little known plant, as it wonld appear, and to 

 which other synonyms might perhaps be added if we had 

 the opportunity of authenticating them. It is a native of 

 Arabia, and has been long* cultivated in the stoves of the 

 Botanic Gardens of Kew, where it flowers in the winter 

 months, and makes a very pretty appearance with its bright 

 yellow flowers among the large calyces and bracts. 



Descr. An erect shrub, with glabrous, articulated, dark- 

 green branches. Leaves opposite, petiolated, spreading, 

 or often recurved, broadly sometimes oblong -lanceolate, 

 acuminate, entire, and when seen under a lens, clothed 

 with minute, appressed hairs. Spikes terminal, ovate, of 

 many dense, bracteatedjflotuers. A pair of lanceolate, cili- 

 ated bracts at the base of each calyx. Calyx large: the 

 two larger valves, or leaflets, ovate, acute, nerved, hairy, 

 serrated and ciliated, the lower one bifid ; the two small 

 and lateral ones alvnost subulate. Corolla infundibuliform, 

 yellow: the tube longer than the calyx: the limb of five 

 spreading, nearly equal segments. Stamens two, perfect : 

 Filaments rather longer than the tube. Anthers oblong. 

 There are besides three minute, abortive, subulate^/amenfc. 

 Ovary ovate, sunk in a fleshy disk, two-seeded. Style 

 much longer than the corolla. Stigma purple. 



Fig. 1. Calyx and Pistil, side view. 2. Front view of the same with the 

 Bracts. 4. Pistil. 5. Section of Ovary : — magnified. 



