feet high, and bore the brilliant inflorescence lrere repre- 
sented. 
Dusor. A branching puberulous shrub, two to three feet 
high, with terete green stems and herbaceous four-angled 
branches, bearing spreading panicles of scarlet flowers ; in- 
ternodes of branches and panicles fimbriate. Leaves three 
to six inches in diameter, orbicular or hastately cordate, 
acuminate or cuspidate, shortly, broadly, acutely five-lobed, | 
base three nerved and deeply cordate with overlapping 
lobes, bright green above, beneath pale, and clothed with 
minute lepidote scales ; upper leaves small, shortly petioled 
or sessile. Panicle a span to a foot long, and nearly as 
broad, with leafy bracts at the internodes ; rachis green, 
tetragonous; branches opposite, three to six inches long, 
the lower pairs suberect, the upper horizontal and droop- 
ing, all bearing towards their apex a many-fid. cyme of 
drooping usually scarlet flowers with subulate bracteoles ; 
pedicels rather short. Calyx segments subequal, one-sixth 
of an inch long, oblong, obtuse. Corolla tubes half an 
inch long, slender, terete, three or four times as long as the 
calyx ; limb of five oblong obtuse spreading lobes about as 
long as the tube. Stamens two to three times as long as 
the corolla ; filaments very slender, scarlet ; anthers small, 
greenish. Ovary glabrous ; style slender, stigmatic arms 
subulate.—J_D.H. ; 
_ _ Fig. 1, Portion of under surface of leaf ; 2, lepidote scale from the same ; 
3, portion of calyx and ovary; 4 and 5, anthers; 6, style :—adl enlarged. 
