base into live erect, lanceolate, aciuninate, nearly entire segmeni^. 
Corolla between three and four inches long, bright scarlet, 
shaggy with long red hair; tithe curved; limb with the upper 
lip galeate, entire, the mouth very open, the lower lip having the 
two lateral segments short and appearing rather to belong to the 
upper than to the lower lip, the intermediate segment is deflexed. 
Stamens and sigle shorter than the corolla. Ovary with a shallow 
h}y)ogynous ring, enlarging at the back into a conspicuous broad 
gland. 
Fig. 1. Pistil and hypogynons cup. 2. Back view of the large gland ;— mag- 
nified. 
