half-hardy plant. A flowering specimen attracted much atten- 
tion at the Chiswick Horticultural Summer Exhibition of 1853, 
and from that our figure was taken. Dr. Lindley considers it 
the finest species of the genus. He overlooks probably the C. 
grandiflorum of Ruiz and Pay, Ic. ined. tab. 383 4., which if 
there be no exaggeration, has flowers in all likelihood, of the 
same rich colour, half as big again as these; but I suspect in 
reality that figure is intended to represent our plant, or a variety 
of it, with longer and somewhat sharply pointed leaves. ‘The 
plate in question is unaccompanied by descriptive characters ; 
but Don, in Dict. of Gard., who was likely to have Ruiz and 
Pavon’s own specimens before him in the Lambertian Herba- 
rium, in his very meagre specific character speaks of the leaves 
as “lanceolate, or ovate,” and in the latter case the two plants 
do not seem to be specifically distinct. 
Descr. Our plant was about a foot high. Young branches 
downy, terete. Zeaves upon very short petioles, ovate, obtuse, 
or rather between oval and cordate, coriaceous, the margin re- 
curved, dark green, and shining above, paler beneath, punctate, 
with impressed dots on both sides. Peduncles from the axils of 
the upper leaves, and also terminal, usually solitary, rather thick, 
bibracteolate, decurved, downy ; flowers large, nearly two inches 
long, drooping. Calyx pubescenti-hirsute ; tude turbinate ; limb 
of five ovate, acute /obes. Corolla scarlet, merging into yellow 
at the apex, between urceolate and cylindrical, of a thick texture, 
between waxy and coriaceous ; Jimé of five, spreading, acute lobes. 
Stamens ten, from the circumference of a depressed epigynous 
disc. Filaments short, hairy at the back. Azther with two 
very long, slender, filiform, erect horns, as long as the tube of 
the corolla, each opening by a pore at the extremity. Style from 
the centre of the epigynous disc, as long as the corolla, terete. 
Ovary five-celled, many-seeded. 
Fig. 1. Calyx and pistil. 2. Transverse section of ovary. 8. Stamen:— 
magnified. 
