angles to the margin, §-$ in. apart, purple, about ,}, in. 
long. Inflorescence about 1 foot high, or slightly more ; 
side branches 8 in. long, curved upwards; raceme 4 in. 
long, dense; bracts 13" in. long, lanceolate, wil as 
scarious, 3—5-nerved; pedicels § 1n. long, becoming 1} i 
long in fruit. Perianth a little over 1 in. long, coral-red; sie 
inflated around the ovary, then conspicuously constricted 
and curved ; lobes oblong, subacute, about 4 in. long, paler 
at the margins, yellow “inside. Filaments a little longer 
than the perianth, flattened at the base; anthers linear, 
dorsifixed, orange. Ovary oblong, deeply three-lobed.— 
CO. H. Wricur. 
Fig. 1, flower; 2 and 3, stamens; 4, oietil 5, whole plant :—1-—4, enlarged, 
5, much reduced. 
