as long as the flowers. Caly,x large, subcampamilate, inflated; 
the mouth oblique, plaited and striated; the teeth short, funiished 
at the base with two appressed fleshy bracts. Corolla with the 
tube scarcely longer than the calyx, the moiiih oblique, the limb 
of four spreading lobes, of which the upper and low^er are the 
largest, the former bifid, all of them rounded. The general colour 
of the corolla is a rich purplish-red, the throat yellow, with dark 
dots. Stamens and style included. Fruit an oblong dark-brown 
capsule, curved upw^ards, wrinkled, crested above, terminating in 
two incurved beaks, much longer than the capsule, and hooked 
at the end. 
Fig. 1. Capsule :—naivral size. 
