cannot be less than five feet across. eaves alternate, one and 
a half to two and a half feet long, coriaceous, obovato-lanceolate, 
acuminate, many and coarsely, almost spinosely, serrated at the 
margin, strongly penniveined, the base tapering gradually into a 
very short petiole. Racemes five or six inches long, solitary or 
two or three together; from the axil of a leaf or from what corre- 
sponds with it on the old wood at various points below the leaves, 
spreading or drooping. Flowers numerous, bright orange. Pe- 
duncle short, and with the rachis and pedicels yellow. Calyex 
yellow, of five imbricating lobes. Coro//a subrotate, fleshy, with 
five spreading, rounded, denticulated lobes, with five large fleshy 
glands at the mouth, which close the faux of the corolla. Sta- 
mens arismg from beneath these glands: the filaments united 
into a tube bearing the extrorse anthers, each of two cells, at the 
top. Ovary small, with a short style, abortive. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Section of the tubular portion of the corolla, showing the 
glands, stamens, and ovary :—magnified. 
