base with oblong, concave, imbricating, rather silky bracts. 
Flowers on short, pubescent peduncles and pedicels, nearly 
one inch long, bright-red, white at the mouth of the corolla. 
Calyx-tube sub-globose, but depressed, and almost truncate at 
the base; teeth five, short. Corolla tubular, but ventricose, 
between cylindric and oblong, much contracted at the mouth, 
with five short, spreading lobes. Stamens with very short 
broad filaments, and long, oblong anthers, their cells termi- 
nating in a long, straight, double tube, which opens by two 
anticous, subterminal slits. The flowers are occasionally tetra- 
merous or hexamerous. J. D. H. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Calyx, ovary, and style. 3 and 4. Anthers :—all 
magnified. 
