three-quarters of an inch long, petioled, ovate, obtuse, quite en- 
tire ; petiole shorter than the blade, spreading or recurved ; 
bracteal leaves sessile, like the cauline, but more membranous 
and pubescent,. green or almost white. lowers ten to 
twenty in a close sessile terminal head. Calyz one half of an 
inch long, narrowly oblong or rather inflated below, green, 
striate, terete, tomentose; teeth 5, short, erect, ovate, acute. 
Corolla slender, scarlet; tube three times as long as the 
calyx, rather inflated above; lobes oblong-lanceolate, not 
one-third the length of the tube. Stamens exserted ; 
anthers small, lobes broadly-oblong, divaricate. Ovary 
small, on a nearly equal disk; style slender; stigma 2-fid. 
he a dd 
Fig. 1, Flower; 2, the same with the corolla laid open; 3, tip of filament and 
anther; 4, ovary disk and base of style:—all enlarged. 
