long petioles, large, nearly elliptical, obtuse at the base, acute 
at the apex, obscurely pubescenti-hirsute, the margin coarsely 
doubly crenate, dark-green, glossy, and wrinkled above with the 
sunk reticulated veins, pale beneath, the veins prominent. Pe- 
tioles fleshy, thick, channelled above, the opposite pairs connate 
at the base of the petioles. From the axils of the upper leaves 
the peduncles are produced, somewhat panicled, few- rarely 
single-flowered. Pedicels one to two inches long. Calyx inclined 
upwards, as it were, from the tube of the corolla, and gibbous on 
the upper side at the base, purple-green, lax, deeply five-partite ; 
lobes lanceolate, straight, subserrated. Corolla crimson. The 
tube longer than the calyx, curved downwards, with an obtuse 
spur at the base above; the Jimd of five, nearly equal, rounded, 
spreading Jobés. Stamens four, didynamous, included. Anthers 
roundish oval, two-celled. Ovary ovate, silky, with a large bifid 
erect gland on one side, and a smaller one on the other. Style 
included. Stigma two-lobed. 
Fig. 1. Stamens. 2. Pistil, 3. Section of ovary :—magnified. 
