length rather minutely spinuloso-serrulated. Panicle longer 
than the leaves, terminal, in reality a compound raceme; the 
branches patent, somewhat distichous ; peduncles and branches 
green, tomentose. Bracteas small, subulate, appressed. /Vowers 
secund. Pedicels short, about as long as, or longer than, the 
bracteoles. Cal/ya of three, erect, subulate or subulato-lanceolate, 
quite green sepals, erect, appressed, rather more than one-third 
the length of the corolla. Petals three, two inches long, linear- 
oblong, subspathulate, channelled, furnished with a bifid scale 
at the base, bright-red ; they are convolute into a tube for about 
two-thirds of the length, then spreading all to one side. Stamens 
longer than the tubular portion of the petals, but shorter than 
the “petals themselves. Fi/aments slender, white. Anthers linear, 
curved, yellow. Ovary free, pyramidal, with three furrows and 
three cells, tapering above into a filiform sfy/e, a little longer 
than the stamens. Stigmas three, ag spreading. 
Fig. 1. Petal. 2, Pistil :—magnified. 
