triplicate-serrate, with long acuminato-serrate points. Panicle 
robust, its main branches erect; the ultimate ones spreading, 
about one inch long, densely covered with red flowers. lowers 
shortly pedicelled, bracteate at the base of the pedicels. Calyx 
erect, with a short obconic tube and five blunt, glandular, pu- 
bescent lobes. Petals five, narrow, very much longer than the 
calyx. Sfamens ten, shorter than the petals. Ovaries two, 
erect, ripening into erect, coriaceous follicles, which split down 
the ventral suture, and discharge the linear minute seeds.— 
J. D. H. 
Fig. 1. Flower, bract, and part of peduncle. 2. Apex of peduncle and 
ovaries. 3, Stamen :—all magnified. 
