small, oblong-lanceolate, herbaceous, scarcely so long as the 
short, scattered pedicels. Calyx small, tubular, oval, two-lipped, 
green ; scale large, spreading. Coro//a an inch and a half long, 
rich scarlet. ude slender, infundibuliform, angled. Zimé short 
in proportion to the tube, two-lipped; wpper lip galeate, three 
lobed (lateral lobes united with it); Jower lip undivided, the 
sides deflexed. Stamens included. Ovary deeply four-lobed, 
seated on a large fleshy base, or gynophore, with a curved neck. 
Style as long as the corolla, and concealed within it, dilated up- 
wards. Stigma subulate. 
Fig. i. Flower. 2. Pistil and gynophore, magnified. 
