are eminently beautiful, and the greater number well worth 
cultivation. 
Descr. Fruticose. Stem a few inches high, simple or very 
slightly branched, clothed with spreading rosulate foliage chiefly 
in the upper part. Leaves three or four inches long, obovato- 
lanceolate, rather firm and rigid, somewhat bullate, reticulato- 
rugose, glabrous, but rough with minute points which turn 
white when dry, the margin very unequally serrated, the under- 
side pale. Pefioles short, channelled, almost shaggy with rufous 
hairs.  Peduncles axillary, rather longer than the petioles, 
single-flowered, hairy, with long narrow linear bracteas at their 
base. Calyz hairy: the tube wholly adnate with the ovary, five-, 
or when more advanced, obscurely ten-angled, turbinate; the 
limb of five ovate, somewhat leafy, acute, spreading three-nerved 
segments. Corolla half as long as the leaves, tubular, swollen 
in the middle, hairy, bright red, the extremity a little decurved, 
the mouth oblique, ZimS of five small, spreading, nearly equal, 
rounded, spreading, ciliated lobes. Stamens as long as the tube. 
Style shorter, with five large three-toothed glands, coadunate at 
the base. Stiyma small, two-lobed. Capsule globose, united 
with the persistent calyx, shortly two-valved. Seeds copious, 
scrobiform. ‘ 
Fig. 1. Corolla laid open. 2 and 3. Anthers. 4. Calyx and pistil. 5. Ovary 
and epigynous gland. 6. Transverse section of an ovary :—magnified. 
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