above, and there green and transversely banded with furfiiraceous 
lines; the underside purple, the margin dentato-serrate. Scape 
twice as long as the leaves, terete above, branched into a panicle, 
of a rich scarlet colour, bearing a few membranaceous lanceolate 
pale browmish hracts. Flowers sessile, fimnished with large ob¬ 
long, membranaceous, deciduous bracts. Calyx, including the 
adherent oxary, conical-ovate, bright red, the connivent teeth 
obtuse, black. Fetals twisted, closed, at first red, afterwards 
purple, boat-shaped, with two scales within at the base. Stamens 
included; and the style also. Stigma capitate. 
Fig. 1. Vertical section of the calyx and ovary. 2. Petal, scales, and stamen. 
3. Flower. 4. Transverse section of gennen:— muffnified. 
