of the skilful Curator of our Glasgow, Botanic Garden, who 
has been the means of rearing so many of Mr. Drummonp’s 
plants, and to whose undeviating kindness and friendship 
that zealous Naturalist was greatly indebted for much of 
the success that attended his exertions. 
Descr. Root perennial. Stem three feet high, erect, . 
simple, rounded, purplish below. Leaves remarkably glau- 
cous, and all quite entire, large, opposite : the radical ones 
six to seven inches long, spathulate, those of the lower part 
of the stem oblong, gradually becoming shorter and broader 
upwards and united at the base, till at length among the 
flowers (where they may be considered bracteas) they are 
remarkably connate, perfoliate, and cup-shaped, sensibly 
diminishing towards the extremity, so that the upper part 
of the stem forms a paniculated raceme, each pair of floral 
leaves bearing two, generally four, and often six, large, 
pedunculated, somewhat drooping, very handsome flowers. 
Peduncle as long as the space between the leaves. Calyx 
deeply cut into five, nearly equal, slightly-spreading, linear- 
oblong segments. Corolla an inch and a half or more long, of 
arich glossy scarlet especially at the base, slightly enlarged 
upwards : limb two-lipped ; upper lip small, bifid ; lower 
large, of three spreading, oval segments. The fifth abor- 
tive filament deep red, curved at the extremity, which is 
filiform and not at all bearded. Germen ovate, green, 
seated upon a glandular disk, tapering into a deep red, 
filiform style : Stigma obtuse. 
Fig. 1. Flower from which a portion of the Corolla is cut away, to show 
the Stamen, the fifth Filament, and the Styles magnified. 
