Descr. — A succulent, erect shrub, two to three feet high, 

 the young 1 parts covered with a white meal. Leaves oppo- 

 site, crowded, very thick and fleshy, obovate-spathulate, 

 three and a half to five inches long, the largest two and a 

 half inches broad above the middle, rounded at the top or 

 almost truncate, usually undulate-crenate above the middle 

 with a terminal cusp ; margin often red in the older 

 leaves. Peduncles twelve to eighteen inches long, naked 

 or bearing a few small, ovate, somewhat acute leaves 

 below the middle. Flowers borne in paniculate cymes 

 about six inches in diameter, one and a half inch long, 

 yellow and orange-red, pendulous. Pedicels usually shorter 

 than the flowers. Calyx-lobes small, deltoid, sub-acute. 

 Corolla-tube cylindrical, twice as long as the recurved, 

 acute lobes. Stamens scarcely overtopping the recurved 

 corolla-lobes. Carpels five (ripe ones not seen) glabrous ; 

 styles scarcely as long as the stamens. — W. B. II. 



Fig. 1, a petal and three stamens ; 2 and 3, anthers ; 4, gyna^ceum ; 5, a 

 young plant about one-sixth of the natural size: — all the other figures en- 

 larged. 



