for years. It produces great quantities of brilliant, crimson, tu- 
bular flowers, attached near the ends of long, branched, droop- 
ing flower-stems, which, when tied out a little, so as to fully ex- 
pose the blossoms to view, render the plant very effective. ‘The 
flowers also keep a long time in perfection, a desirable property 
at all times, and especially at this season of the year.” This is 
no exaggerated statement, as the public had an opportunity of 
witnessing by the noble plants exhibited at the Society’s rooms 
the following Tuesday, when they attracted the attention of 
every visitor. 
Descr. Our plants are two to three feet high, branched, the 
branches subterete, glabrous, as is almost every part of the plant, 
and twiggy. eaves a good deal confined to the young and ten- 
der shoots, nearly sessile, broadly lanceolate, acuminate, penni- 
nerved. acemes axillary and terminal, one to two feet and 
more long; their dranches few, slender, and gracefully drooping, 
below bracteated with subulate, opposite drac¢s, the rest bearing 
good-sized flowers in opposite pairs, drooping. Pedicels short. 
Calyz slightly hairy, deeply cut into five, subulate, erecto-patent 
lobes. Corollas nearly two inches long, rich crimson, tubuloso- 
clavate ; the Zimd small, of five, erecto-patent, nearly equal, ob- 
tuse teeth. Sfamens included, two perfect, inserted a little below 
the middle of the tube. Anthers oblong; two abortive, small, 
capitate at the apex. Ovary oblong, seated on a conspicuous 
gland, Style a little exserted. Stigma minute, bifid. 
Fig. 1. Calyx and ovary. 2.. Pistil :—magnified. 
