above, and there very rounded, hairy, the hairs pointing 
upwards. Leaves below in opposite, remote, pairs ; above, 
in whorls of three, all of them oblong-ovate, or nearly ellip- 
tical upon so short a stalk, that they can scarcely be called 
petiolated, obtuse, hairy on both sides, and beneath very pale- 
coloured, but not woolly, two to three inches long :—these 
gradually become smaller, and pass into small, ovate ses- 
sile bracteas, equally whorled, and three ina whorl. In the 
axis of each bractea is a pedicel, two or more inches long, 
curved, hairy, bearing asingle, large, handsome, red flower. 
Calyx almost globose, hairy, gibbous above, divided nearly 
half way down into five triangular, sharp lobes. Corolla 
two inches long, with a remarkable double, inflated gibbo- 
sity at the base above, the twbe curved, flattened at the sides, 
hairy, the mb unequally two-lipped: upper lip straight, 
bifid, twice as long as the lower, which has three short, 
slightly patent lobes, all of them a little waved. Stamens 
curved. Anthers, as well as the style, protruded. Hypo- 
nous glands five, yellow ; two upper ones the largest, 
and united for nearly their whole length. Germen ovate, 
hairy. Style reddish, green below, suddenly curved up- 
wards at the base. 
Fig. 1. Pistil and Hypogynous Glands :—magnified. 
