lanceolate, rarely oblanceolate, obtuse or subacute, with 
usually an apiculus, smooth and shining above, midrib 
strong beneath, nerves very obscure, when dry rusty brown 
beneath with recurved margins; petiole very short. Pe- 
duncles terminal, slender, one-fourth to one-half of an inch 
long, curved, bearing a much shortened umbelliform raceme 
of brilliant scarlet flowers; pedicels one-sixth to one-fourth 
of an inch long. Perianth tubular, tube one-half of an inch 
long, grooved, villous within; lobes half the length of the 
tube, oblong, obtuse, revolute, glabrous within. <Anthers 
small, sessile. Disk small, annular. Ovary slender, stipi- 
tate; style very stout, two to three times as long as the 
perianth tube, slightly curved, scarlet; stigma oblique, | 
discoid.— J. D, H. 
Fig. 1, Flower ; 2, portion of perianth seen from within; 3, apex of lobe of ditto 
with anther; 4, pistil; 5, hair :—all enlarged. 
