bracteas at the setting on of the branches, and the branches them- 

 selves apparently clothed with a short yellow down, but which is 

 partially concealed by copions bright red hairs or setae, themselves 

 beset with setulse or lesser horizontal hairs, imparting a rich red 

 velvetty hue to this portion of the plant. Flowers several on each 

 branchlet, distichous, each subtended by a small subulate bractea, 

 and of a rich yellow colour. Pedicels short. Perianth infundi- 

 buliform, curved, the mouth oblique ; externally clothed, with 

 bright yellow hairs of the same structure as those on the branches 

 of the panicle. Segments spreading unequally, the two lowest 

 being wide apart, within covered with short whitish down. Mouth 

 very oblique, smooth within the tube, lined as it were with a 

 membrane, which at the faux gives origin to the six exserted 

 stamens. Filaments short. Anthers oblong. Style curved, ex- 

 serted, as long as the stamens. 



Pig. 1. Flower, slightly magnified. 



