especially when dry, paler and smoother beneath, almost glau- 
cous. tacemes nearly sessile, always terminal, four- to six- 
flowered. Pedicels bracteate, a little hirsute, spreading, jointed 
at the insertion of the ovary, furnished at the base with a large, 
deciduous, membranaceous bractea, as long as the pedicel, and 
sometimes having a bracteole above the base. Ovary small, 
globose. Flowers drooping. Calycine Jobes five, ovate, acute. 
Corolla rich scarlet, glabrous, urceolate, but tapering upwards 
to the contracted mouth: Zimd of five, reflected, short, acute. 
lobes. Stamens ten; filaments broad-subulate, very hairy ; 
anthers short, oblong, muticous, opening by two pores. Style, 
as well as the stamens, included, surrounded at the base by a 
large epigynous ring. W. J. H. 
Cunt. A neat evergreen shrub which requires to be treated 
as a green-house plant. In the summer it may be placed in 
the open air in a shady place. Like the rest of this tribe of 
plants, it thrives in light sandy peat-soil, and is readily increased 
by cuttings. J. 8. 
Fig. 1. Flower, pedicel, and bract. 2. Stamen. 3. Calyx and _ pistil:— 
magnified. 
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