acuminate, coarsely acutely serrate, bright-green above, paler 
and tomentose but at length glabrate beneath, and reticu-— 
lated with prominent veins. acemes axillary, erect, three to 
five inches long, subsessile, narrow, simple or compound 
at the base, covered with orange-red velvety pubescence ; 
pedicels strict, erect, much larger than the small bracts. 
Flowers one-third of an inch long. Perianth clavate before 
opening, divided to below the middle into four narrowly 
spathulate segments. Ovary narrow-ovoid, villous; style 
slender, stigma clavate —J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower ; 2, pedicel and pistil :— magnified. 
