branches. Leaves in opposite pairs, sometimes nearly a span 
long, including the petiole, ovato-lanceolate, submembranaceous, 
entire, penniveined, acuminate, attenuated at the base. Panicle 
terminal, with copious dracts and bracteoles, and composed of 
many-flowered opposite racemes or spikes. Flowers opposite, - 
sessile. Calyx cut nearly to the base into five, narrow, erect, 
linear-subulate, glanduloso-pilose segments. Corolla more than 
two inches long, scarlet, tubuloso-infundibuliform, curved, very 
slender and much tapering at the basé, inflated or ventricose in 
the middle, the five triangular lobes of the limb patent and even 
recurved. Stamens included within the tube. Anthers with a 
small spur at the base of each cell. Ovary sunk into a large, 
fleshy, cup-shaped disc. Ovules about four in each cell. 
- Fig. 1. Calyx, including the pistil. 2. Stamens. 38. Two-celled anthers. 
4. Ovary surrounded at the base by the cup-like fleshy disc :—magnified. 
