variable in form, ovate, ovate-oblong or orbicular, three to 

 five inches long by four broad, glabrous, dark green above 

 with deeply sunk nerves and nervules, pale beneath with 

 strong papillose nerves, margin entire or remotely denticu- 

 late, papillose, base cordate ; petiole two to three inches 

 long, and scapes two to five inches long, both very stout, 

 hairy. Umbel (sometimes two superposed) very many- 

 flowered, three inches in diameter. Bracts one-third of an 

 inch long, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, green, glabrous. 

 Pedicels one half to one inch and a quarter long, slender, 

 glabrous. Calyx half an inch long, terete, somewhat 

 inflated, strongly five-ribbed ; teeth short, acute. Corolia- 

 tube longer than the calyx, mouth naked ; limb two-thirds 

 of an inch broad, varying from rose-red to crimson- 

 purple; lobes obcordate. Stamens inserted about one- 

 third way down the tube. Style extending nearly to the 

 base of the anthers. Capsule rather longer than the 

 capsule ; valves revolute. — J. D. H. 



Fig. J, section of the corolla with stamens and pistil ; 2, ovary; 3, calyx and 

 capsule : — all enlarged. 



