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Calyz-segments almost equally narrow, but shorter. Corolla 
large, yellow, tubular, cut almost half-way down into two gaping 
lips ; the wpyper erect, complicate, entire (in which the stamens 
are lodged) ; /ower lip reflexed, spathulate, channelled, three- 
toothed at the apex. Ovary oblong, smooth, sunk into a cup- 
shaped gland. Style very long, slender, filiform: stigma capi- 
tate. W.J. H. 
Curr. This isa soft-wooded, shrubby, tropical plant, of a 
rather weedy, naked habit, producing its handsome head of 
flowers on the apex of upright shoots. It will grow freely in 
any light kind of soil; but in order to obtain a large head of 
flowers a young healthy plant must be selected and potted in a 
mixture of good loam and leaf-mould or turfy peat. It should 
then be placed in a warm part of the stove, and shifted into a 
larger pot as it becomes necessary. During the summer, when 
it is in rapid growth, it should be watered freely, observing that 
the mould does not become Stagnant, which will sometimes 
happen with soils composed of a portion of leaf-mould. Care 
should therefore be taken to have the pots properly drained. 
It is readily propagated by cuttings, placed under a bell-glass, 
or in a frame. J. 8. 
Fig. 1. Calyx with bracteas and pistil. 2. Ovary with the glandular cup 
at the base :—imagnified. sa : 
