a pair of small green bracts at the base ; and a smaller 

 pair of dark red ones at the apex of each ; pedicels £-J in. 

 long, blood-red, and obscurely-pubescent like the calyx. 

 Calyx broadly campanulate, nearly 1 in. diam., with a re- 

 curved nearly entire margin. Cwolla short, villous with 

 cellular hairs, tube hardly exserted, blood-red, glandular 

 withm. Lobes spreadicg, shortly ovate, often yellow with 

 very broad blood-red margins, and a broad central red 

 band. Filaments exserted, white, glandular. Owzr*/ puberu- 

 lous, cylmdric, stigma sessile, disciform. Dish annular.— 

 J. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Ovary and disk ; 2, hairs of corolla -.—Both enlarged. 



