long, tortuous, green; bracts very small, subulate, bright 
red, shorter than the stout pedicels. Calyx small, segments 
erect, subulate-lanceolate, acuminate, bright red, furnished 
at the base within with about five subulate minute fleshy 
glands. Corolla-tube nearly two inches long, cylindric 
below the middle, dilated and narrowly funnel-shaped above 
it, furnished within below the middle with copious deflexed 
hairs; limb two and a half to three inches in diameter, 
bright rose-coloured; lobes orbicular, obtusely cuspidate. 
Stamens inserted at the top of the cylindric part of the 
corolla-tube; filaments very short, flat; anthers linear, — 
connective produced in an oblong-ovate terminal claw. 
Disk a solitary oblong gland. Ovary glabrous, stigma 
five-angled—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, portion of stem, with bases of petioles and interpetiolar glands ; 
2, portion of calyx with the gland of the disk and two carpels; 3, portion of 
corolla-tube and stamens; 4, three stamens; 5, top of style and stigma :—AJ¢ 
enlarged, 
