with rather short dense down, as is almost every part of the 
plant, elliptical and obtuse, reticulato-venose, wrinkled, serrate, 
above rather glossy and dark copper-coloured, beneath purplish- 
rose. Peduncles erect, solitary, axillary, longer than the petioles, 
single-flowered. Flower inclined almost horizontally. Calyx 
however, erect, divided to the base into five, lax, spathulate 
lobes, of which one is smaller than the rest and more spreading, 
forced back, as it were, by the gibbous base of the corolla. 
Corolla rich scarlet, hypocrateriform; tube hairy, twice as long 
as the calyx, yellow, spotted with red wdthin, mouth fimbriated. 
Limb oblique, of five rounded, dentato-ciliate, spreading segments. 
Stamens four, didynamous. Filaments united at the base. 
Anthers combined. Ovary hairy, with a large yellow gland 
coiresponding with the spur of the corolla. Style included. 
Stigma capitate, with an obhque perforation. 
Fig. 1. Cal^ and pistil. 2. Corolla laid open. 3. Ovary and gland. 
4. Section of ditto;— magnified. 
