many-flowered, subpyramidal, and copiously bracteated. Brac- 
teas gradually becoming smaller upwards, and always as long 
as, or longer, than the flowers, patent or recurved, carinated, 
from an ovate base acuminated, the margin denticulated. Pe- 
dicels about an inch long. overs erecto-patent. Ca/yx with 
the tube exceedingly short, hemispherical, five-angled: /imd of 
five, subulate, almost spiniform, erect, distant /odes, two in- 
ferior ones more distant from the flower than the three supe- 
rior ones: they have all a pubescent line on the back. Corolla 
bright scarlet: ¢wbe narrow, straight, an inch and more long; 
lind two-lipped ; upper lip of two, spreading, linear-lanceolate 
segments ; dower of three spreading ones, rather larger than the 
upper ones. Column of stamens (staminal tube) rather longer 
than the tube of the corolla. Anthers syngenesious, leaden co- 
lour. S¢y/e as long as the stamens, but concealed by the latter. 
Stigma two-lobed, downy. | 
Fig. 1. Flower, from which the corolla is removed :—magnified. 
