sessile, opposite, linear-oblong, obtuse, three-nerved from 

 the base, with the midrib penninerved, quite glabrous, 

 bright green above, pale beneath, base narrowed ; young 

 pinnee pendulous, with pale, red-brown, membranous 

 white leaflets, the terminal pair largest (all being sub- 

 equal in age). Flowers capitate, on a very short peduncle, 

 forming with the scarlet stamens a head two and a half 

 inches in diameter. Calyx minute, truncate. Corolla four- 

 tenths of an inch long, tubular-campanulate, shortly five- 

 cleft, quite glabrous, bright pink, lobes short, rounded. 

 Staminal tube exserted, mouth with one row of small 

 crenate scales at the base of the single row of scarlet 

 filaments which are an inch long ; anthers minute, crimson. 

 — /. D. E. 



Fig. 1, Flower ; 2, the same laid open, showing the interior of the stamiual 

 tube with the scales, bases of the stamens, disk and ovary : — All enlarged. 



