Desev.—A fleshy shrub or herb, almost glabrous in all 
parts, two to three feet high. Branches striped with red. 
Leaves alternate, long-stalked, ovate or the upper ones 
lanceolate, mostly three to four inches long, acute, crenate, 
with a solitary bristle between the crenatures, both sur- 
faces, especially on the midrib and primary veins, 
furnished with a few scurf-like hairs; primary lateral 
veins about three on each side of the midrib. lowers 
pure scarlet, axillary, solitary, or rarely two on a common 
stalk, largest one inch and three quarters across, flat. 
Stalks shorter than the leaves. Sepals three; lateral 
small, scale-like. Spurred sepal having an ovate, apiculate 
limb; spur slender, about an inch and a_ half long. 
Standard or odd petal broadly obcordate. ' Lateral petals 
deeply divided into two, nearly equal, obliquely obovate- 
spathulate, rounded lobes.—W. Borrina Hemstey. » 
Fig. 1, portion of leaf, upper surface; 2, a flower-bud; 3, anthers from a 
bud; 4, the same from an expanded flower :—all enlarged. ae 
