five to eight inches long, elliptic-ovate, acuminate, narrowed 

 into the rather stout or slender petiole, along whose sides the 

 blade is decurrent, many-nerved, the nerves sunk in the 

 surface and connected by cross-nervulcs, deep green. 

 Peduncles axillary, four to six inches long, usually more or 

 less glandular-hairy, four-angled, erect, rigid, dichotomously 

 branched with a flower in the forks ; branches strict, divari- 

 cating. Flowers sessile; bracts elliptic-lanceolate, caducous. 

 Calyx almost cylindric, one half an inch long; segments 

 linear-oblong, obtuse, glandular-pubescent, green. Corolla- 

 tube one inch long, slightly curved, subinflated ; limb two 

 inches in diameter, bright orange- scarlet, yellow at the 

 throat ; lobes subequal, oblong, rounded at the apex. Sta?nens 

 exscrted, filaments very slender, united in pairs (a short with 

 a long one) for half their length, pubescent at the very base ; 

 anthers oblong. Style very slender, bifid at the apex; 

 anterior lobe linear revolute, posterior short, much broader, 

 ovate-lanceolate, slightly recurved. — J. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Longitudinal section of flower; 2, short and Ion" stamens; 3, ovary:— 

 «ll enlarged. 



