rately branched, everywhere glabrous. Leaves opposite, between 
ovate and lanceolate, slightly waved, moderately acuminate, en- 
tire, strongly ribbed, the ribs or veins generally with a white 
streak at the base: petioles very short, thick, dilated or winged 
at the margin. Spies terminal, strobiliform, almost a span long, 
tetragonons, formed of closely imbricated carinated scales, in 
four ranks, of a rich reddish-orange colour, elliptical, obtuse, 
entire, uppermost one the narrowest, lowermost pair the broad- 
est, and green on the back. From each of these scales, one at 
a time, appear the flowers, about four in a whorl, slightly pubes- 
cent, bright uniform yellow. The two lips of the corolla are 
nearly equal in length; upper lip entire, carinate, and condu- 
plicate, emarginate ; lower of three nearly equal segments, lanceo- 
late, the intermediate one scarcely larger than the lateral ones : 
the tube of the corolla long, slender. Calyz of five, nearly equal, 
oblong, moderately acute sepals. Stamens as in A. aurantiaca, in- 
cluded. Ovary, from a thickened base, ovate : style long, slender, 
downy above: stigma obtuse, bifid. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Pistil :—magnified. 
