called bracteas, and the pedicels, placed in an umbel, an umbellate- 
conmb ; at first these flowers are erect, soon spreading. Calyx- 
tube short and broad, turbinate, angled; limb of five, spreading, 
linear-obtuse segments. Corolla rich scarlet, downy, two and a 
half inches long, monopetalous ; the tube elongated, club-shaped, 
slightly curved and ventricose above, laterally compressed, and 
angular. The mouth of the tube is small and contracted : the 
segments small, nearly equally hairy, connivent only when old, 
the lower ones spreading. Stamens scarcely protruded, two 
lower ones bearded. 
Fig. 1. Calyx and pistil. 2. Anthers :— magnified. 
