rived from afyos, gay, and Bapvos, a shoot, or branch ; so named from 

 the beauty of its flowering branches. 



Descr. A shrub, according to Hartweg, about five feet high, 

 downy. Branches terete. Leaves alternate, on short thick red 

 petioles, ovato-acuminate, waved, entire, obtuse at the base, pen- 

 ninerved. Flowers in involucrated capitate cymes. Involucral 

 leaves three or four, resembling those of the stem, but much 

 smaller and nearly sessile. Pedicels short, or none. Calyx small, 

 with a short obconical tube and five erect ovate acuminated cili- 

 ated segments. Corolla rather a deep red rose-colour, urceolate, 

 but much elongated and tapering at the base, constricted at the 

 mouth ; limb of five spreading, ovate, very acute, ciliated segments. 

 Stamens included. Filaments inserted below the middle of the 

 tube. Anthers short-oblong. Ovary globose, on a fleshy disk, 

 two-celled, few-seeded. Style included. Stigma capitate, some- 

 what two-lobed. 



