ovate, or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate,* acute at the base, 
upper surface covered with minute hairs, dark green, with a 
_ red midrib, under surface glabrous, pale-green, with red mid- 
rib and veins. Flowers erect, golden-yellow, two inches long, 
crowded in short, terminal, very shortly peduncled cymes, so 
that the inflorescence resembles a golden crown.  Pedicels 
very short. Bracts dark-green, linear-lanceolate, rather 
broader at the base, acuminate, shorter than the calyx, spar- 
ingly ciliate ; bracteoles narrow, obtuse or acute. Ca/ya dark- 
green, one third of an inch long, cleft to below the middle 
into five subulate, sparingly ciliate segments. Corolla narrow, 
perfectly glabrous, slightly incurved, of nearly equal diameter 
and uniform colour throughout ; tube angular ; limb 2-lipped; 
upper lip narrow, oblong-lanceolate, laterally compressed, 
vaulted, subacute; lower lip reflexed, oblong, obtusely 
3-lobed. _Anther-cells nearly straight, glabrous. Stigma 
minute.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Calyx, bracteoles, and style; 2, ovary and disk :—both magnified. 
