at the internodes. Leaves opposite, the pairs rather approxi- 
mate, sessile, ovate, acute or subacuminate, sinuato-serrate, with — 
three primary veins, glabrous above, hairy on the costa and veins 
beneath. Peduncles axillary, solitary, erect, single-flowered, much 
shorter than the leaves. Flowers horizontally drooping, large, 
handsome. Bracts ovate, nearly as long as the tube of the co- 
rolla, to which they are appressed, three-nerved ;. zerves strong, 
reticulated with lesser veins. Corol/a with the tube yellow, two 
inches long, curved upwards ; /imd large, cut into five broad, ob- 
cordate, nearly equal, horizontally spreading /odes. Calyx minute, 
of six, small, triangular, incurved, apiculate teeth. Stamens four, 
nearly equal in height. Anthers each two-horned. Ovary sur- 
rounded by a large, fleshy disc. Style slender at the base, gla- 
brous, gradually enlarged into a somewhat trumpet-shaped but 
triangular concave stigma, with numerous glandular /acrs below 
the stigma. 
Fig. 1. Stamens. 2. Calyx and pistil. 3. Stigma :—magnified. 
