two inches long, tapering at both extremities, obtuse, quite 

 entire. Flowers crowded, and covering the whole upper part 

 of the plant. Calyx-tube narrow-oblong, rather hirsute ; lobes 

 one inch long, connate into a boat-shaped limb, which is split 

 on one side. Petals one inch and a half to two inches long, 

 obcordate, rose-red, with a large diffused crimson-purple 

 b otch above the claw. Stamens with short subulate pale 

 filaments ; anthers erect, subulate-lanceolate, acuminate, red 

 below, golden-yellow towards the tips. Ovary one inch long ; 

 style straight, erect, stigmas four, large, linear-recurved, 

 yellow. Capsule herbaceous, ovoid-oblong, one inch 

 long. Seeds very numerous in each cell, testa brown, 

 turluraceous.— /. D. //. 



F % d Fl ° Wer With petals removed ; 2 > st yle and stigmas :— both slightly 



magnified 



