inch broad, narrowly oblanceolate, narrowed into the petiole, 
quite entire, obtuse or subacute, coriaceous ; upper leaves 
shorter, quite linear. Panicle of long slender lax-flowered 
racemes; rachis and branches very slender, stiff, erect ; 
bracts minute; pedicels slender, rigid, erect, half an inch 
long or less. Flowers one and a half inch long, horizontal 
cr ascending. Calyx one-fourth of an inch long, sepals 
ovate, acute, upper smaller, all appressed. Corolla scarlet, 
tube narrow; lobes half the length of the tube; upper 
horizontal, oblong, bifid at the tip; lower as long, linear, 
subacute, spreading; throat glabrous. Stamens aslongas 
the corolla, filaments quite glabrous; anther-cells divaricate. 
Ovary glabrous ; style filiform, glabrous, stigma entire.— — 
td 
Fig. 1, Flower cut ey: 2, calyx; 3, stamens; 4, top of style and stigma ; — 
5, ovary cut transversely :-—all enlarged. 
