Dzscr. A shrub two to three feet high, with slender, twiggy, 
opposite, brown, terete branches; the young ones clothed with 
minute, tufted, stellated, ferruginous hairs. Leaves opposite, on 
short, slender petioles, about an inch long, subcoriaceous, ellipti- 
cal-lanceolate, scarcely acute, the margin recurved and entire, 
clothed with minute, stellated hairs, above dark green, very pale — 
and whitish, nerves obsolete. Peduncles axillary, long, slender, 
single-flowered, much longer than the leaves, bearing a single, 
large, drooping flower of a rich scarlet and yellow colour, with a 
pair of leaf-like bracteas just beneath the calyx. Calye hemi- 
spherical or cup-shaped, ferruginously downy, truncate, with four 
minute almost obsolete teeth. Corol/a more than an inch long, 
tubular, but approaching to clavate, rather narrow, downy ; Limd 
rather small, of four erect teeth. Stamens protruded a quarter of 
an inch beyond the limb, unequal ; fi/aments glabrous, the shorter 
ones more dilated at the base than the larger ones. Ovary deeply 
four-lobed, villous: s¢y/e as long as the stamens, with spreading 
distant hairs in the lower portion. 
Fig. 1, Stamens. 2. Pistil :—magnijied. 
