cylindrical, but enlarging a little upwards, hence approaching to 
campanulate, the limb of five short, spreading, rather acute 
segments, the whole black-purple, glossy, and clothed with dense 
blackish tomentum. Corolla about twice as long as the calyx, 
rich scarlet, everywhere downy, curved ; the ve much contracted 
above the bulbiform ovate base; the /imé oblique, of four nearly 
equal, erecto-patent ovate segments, of which the upper one alone 
is bifid; at the fava of the corolla are four, double, radiating, 
pale lines, two on each segment, accompanied by dark spots. 
Stamens and pistil extending to the apex of the upper lobe 
of the corolla. Perigynous gland a five-lobed fleshy cup. Ovary 
cylindrical, downy. StyZe equal in thickness to the ovary, downy. 
Stigma a transversely oblong disc, also downy. 
Fig. 1. Corolla :—natural size. 2. Pistil and perigynous disc :—magnified. 
