in Mexico and in Jamaica. It flowers throughout the summer 
months. 
Descr. Plant three to four feet high, shrubby below, the 
‘rest herbaceous: dranches terete. Leaves opposite, petiolate, 
ovate, acuminate, penninerved, reticulated, the margin sinuated 
or indistinctly toothed, puberulous. Panicles long as or longer 
than the leaves spreading, di-trichotomous : peduncles and pedicels 
slender, bracteated, Jowers large, handsome, subsecund. Calyx 
oblong, tubular, with two bracteas at the base, half to three- 
quarters of an inch long, green, cut as far as the middle into 
five nearly equal, linear-lanceolate, obtuse, ciliated, erect seg- 
ments. Corolla between two and three inches long, bright 
scarlet: the tude curved, broader upwards, but laterally com- 
pressed, somewhat plaited, yellow within : /imé large, cut into 
five nearly equal, oblong, obtuse lobes, which soon become re- 
flexed, four above and one below. Stamens exserted : anther 
oblong, sagittate, two-celled. Ovary on a large fleshy gland. 
Style filiform, longer than the stamens : stigma of two linear, 
very unequal lobes. Capsule clavate, many-seeded. W. J. H. 
Cuxr. An erect soft-wooded plant, requiring the heat of the 
stove, and growing freely in dry good garden-soil. Like many 
other allied Acanthacee, its habit is to grow up thin and naked. 
To induce lateral flowering branches, it is necessary to stop the 
leading shoots. It is readily increased by cuttings. J. 8. 
Fig. 1. Pistil:—natural size. 9. Capsule :— magnified. 
