Descr. An erect, glabrous, branching, suffruticose plant, 

 twelve to eighteen inches high, with rethei bottle, woody, 

 terete branches, and fleshy branchlcts and cymes. I. ppo- 



site, on thick shortish petioles, ovate or elliptic-ovate, acute, 

 continuous below with the petiole, serrate, very thick, and almost 

 fleshy in texture, with three to five parallel veins, green suffused 

 with red above, purple beneath. Flmrcrs in a terminal, falcate, 

 stout, unilateral ci/me, nearly one inch in diameter, of a deep 

 vinous purple-red. Calyx tube turbinate, as long as the pe- 

 duncles ; its lobes short and broad. Petals elliptic, acute, 

 spreading. Stamens with subulate flame/its, as long as the 

 elongated apiculate anthers. Disk an elongated fimbriated an- 

 nulus. Style deflexed, with a simple stigma. 



Fig. 1. Flower with the petals removed. 2. Ovary, disk, and style. 4. 

 Stamens. 5. Transverse section of ovary : — all magnified. 



