exactly ovate, slightly acuminated but not oa at the apex, 
a little downy, especially at the edge and beneath, quite entire. 
Umbels of few flowers, both axillary and terminal, solitary. Pe- 
duncle short, deflexed. Pedicels slender, and with an upward 
curvature, so that the flowers become erect. These are very 
beautiful and richly coloured. Calya short, cup-shaped rather 
than tubular, red, the edge cut into five, erect, nearly equal, 
rounded /odes, villous with slender hairs tipped with minute 
glands. Corolla an inch and a half to two inches long, scarlet, 
streaked with bright-yellow and black, glanduloso-hirsute ; tube 
rather short, curved, nearly thrice as long as the short calyx, 
gibbous on the anterior side; limb very oblique, about as long 
as the tube, bilabiate; upper lip of one, lower of three, ovate 
concave spreading segments. Stamens four, didyne 
ing at the apex of the upper lip of the corolla, where the anthers 
combine. Ovary linear, cylindrical, downy, arising from the 
sntre very large hemispherical, depressed gland. Stigma 
