forma var. 7. stricti:” thus showing its affinity to the latter 
species; and he does not appear to have seen a specimen, but 
to have drawn up his specific character from Lemaire’s figure. 
It flowers in February and March, and is highly ornamental. 
Descr. A half-shrubby plant of a strict habit, two and a half 
to three feet high, including the raceme, glabrous, branched 
below. Leaves opposite, a span and more long, oblong, much 
acuminated, below decurrent into a short footstalk: the dranches 
elongate into a raceme, of which the rachis is minutely downy, 
a foot to a foot and a half long, four-sided. Pedicels in pseudo- 
whorls, short, subtended by one outer small, and several inner 
very minute, subulate bracteas, shorter than the short pedicels. 
Calyx quite destitute of bracteas, purplish-red. Corolla rich 
scarlet, tubular, approaching to funnel-shaped ; /imd of four, 
nearly equal, spreading segments, which are ovate, obtuse, the 
upper one bifid. Stamens exserted, oblong; sterile fi/aments 
minute, subulate. Ovary oblong-ovate. Style shorter than the 
tube of the corolla. 
Fig. 1. Corolla laid open. 2. Anther. 3. Pistil :—magnified. 
