Kunth. The flowering plant here figured was communicated 
from the Chelsea Nursery, where it was in great beauty in Oc- 
tober, 1858. _ 
Descr. Plant moderately branched, and indeed Ruiz and 
Pavon’s figure represents it so (spite of the specific name), and 
even with verticillate branches, as might be expected to occur; 
glabrous, as is the whole plant. Leaves ternate (quaternate, 2. 
and P.) on the main stem and branches, four to five inches long, 
much smaller upon the pendulous, elongated, flowering branches, 
where they become bracteiform, but spreading; their form is 
ovate, approaching to lanceolate, a little polished above, entire, 
on very short petioles, those of the bracts sessile. Flowers large, 
handsome, numerous, rose-scarlet, one in the axil of each floral 
leaf or bractea, pendent. Pedicels short. Ovary oval. Tube 
of the calye long, infundibuliform ; the segments spreading, four, 
lanceolate. Petals ovate, acute (red), shorter than the sepals. 
Stamens exserted, but moderately so. 
Fig. 1. Leaves from the lower part of the plant, nat. size. 
