over with conspicuous white lepidote scales, the back finely 
persistently white lepidote all over, the edge quite entire. 
Pedunele four or six inches long, finely lepidote, furnished 
with several reduced leaves. Raceme simple, four or six 
inches long ; pedicels ascending, not more than a quarter or 
a third of an inch long; bracts small, lanceolate. Calyx 
about three-quarters of an inch long, the base adnate to the 
ovary ; segments lanceolate, green, horny, thinly lepidote. 
Petals oblanceolate, about two inches and a_ half long, 
unilateral in the expanded flower, bright scarlet in the 
lower part, passing into bright red upwards. Stamens 
nearly as long as the petals; anthers erect, linear, a quarter 
of an inch long. Style-arms strongly twisted.—J. G. Baker. 
Fig. 1, scale from the upper side of the leaf; 2, anthers ; 3, pistil; 4, style-arms 
untwisted ; 5, style-arms, with their natural twist ; 6, horizontal section of ovary : 
—all magnified, except 3. 
