clasping base, tapering gradually to an acuminate point, 

 concave on the face above tin- | on the back, 



glaucous green with a few small whil . margined with 



small, ascending, deltoid teeth. Peduncles produced from 

 the axils of the upper leaves, short, compressed, acutely 

 angled. Inflorescence a lax panicle a foot and a half long, 

 composed of ten or twelve laxly racemose ascending 

 branches; pedicels about a quarter of an inch long; bracts 

 small, lanceolate. /'■ rianth cylindrical, under an inch long ; 

 segments linear-oblong, scarcely longer than the tube; tube 

 and outer segments bright red; inner red-yellow, with a 

 green keel. and style a little longer than the 



perianth; anthers small, oblong, yellow.— J. Q. Bed 



; Jk e i£' WI "' k ' , vh , ni ' m "'' h '' -'• a !eaf ; 3 i u PPer branch* of the panicle, 



th'L^da^d h0UtVU ' W stamen; 5, back view of ttemen; (3, pk!S, all 



