Racemes very long, terminal upon the branches, simple, or 
ramose, many-flowered. Pedicels short, subverticillate, with small 
deciduous bracteas at the base. Calyx as in the genus, glandu- 
loso-pilose, tinged with purple, having the dorsal scale much en¬ 
larged in fruit. Corolla orange-scarlet, glanduloso-pilose, very 
long, many times longer than the calyx, the tube much curved, 
slender in the lower half, gradually widening upwards, so as to 
be funnel-shaped: the mouth inclining downwards : the limb of 
two lips, the lower lip ovate, acute, entire, deflexed, the upper 
much shorter, galeate, obtuse, three-lobed, middle lobe emargi- 
nate. Stamens and style included. Ovaries glandular, situated 
on a large conical gland or gynophore. 
Fig, 1. Flower:— magnified. 
