having fallen away. In our plants the peduncles are single- 
flowered and axillary—It is more than probable that our 
plant is the same with the Z. grandiflora of Zuccarini, briefly 
characterized in the ‘Flora’ above quoted; but we have no 
means of determining the question. Our plant is a native of 
Mexico and Guatemala, and flowers in the greenhouse with us 
in March.” : 
Descr. A small half-shrubby plant: the root is said to be 
tuberous and fleshy, like some Fuchsias. Branches green and 
succulent. Leaves opposite, on long petioles, ovate, acuminate, 
coarsely serrated, slightly hairy (variable, I believe, in this re- 
spect), and ciliated; strongly penninerved, the lateral nerves or 
veins channelled above, prominent beneath. Peduncles axillary, 
solitary, much longer than the petioles, slender, erecto-patent, 
single-flowered. Flowers large, bright red; the small, globose, 
inferior ovary only being green. Calye segments erecto-patent, 
lanceolate, broader at the base. Petals, two narrower and 
longer than the calyx, geniculated at the base: two broader and 
shorter than the calyx. Perfect stamen one; filament as long as 
the style; anther large, oblong, terminal, purple : the other, or 
second stamen, is abortive, petaloid, oblong-spathulate, wavy at 
the margin, geniculated near the base, dilated at the point of in- 
sertion. Style about as long as the petals, hairy near the base. 
Stigma depresso-capitate. 
Fig. 1. Flower from which the calyx-segments and two of the petals have been 
removed. 2. Ovary cut through transversely :—magnified. 
