Descr. Shrub apparently of moderate height, two feet in the 
present instance: dranches terete, brown, woody ; the younger 
ones said to be clothed with scales. Leaves shortly petiolate, ; 
oblong-oval, approaching to elliptical, firm, coriaceous, two and 
a half to near three inches long, entire, glabrous, dark green 
above, pale beneath, penniveined, very obtuse at the apex and 
mucronate, tapering below. Pefioles about half an inch long. 
ftacemes numerous, terminal, sessile, many-flowered. Rachis 
green. Pedicels red, half an inch to an inch long, erecto- 
patent. #V/owers bright scarlet ; in bud nearly two inches long, 
tubular, curved upwards, the closed segments of the perianth 
forming a globose head, eventually separating one-third of the 
way down from the apex into four, spathulate, reflexed, and often 
spirally twisted /odes, in the concave apices of which the sessile 
oblong anthers are imbedded. Ovary elongated, cylindrical, 
shortly stipitate, bearing a prominent gland on the upper side of 
the stipes, tapering gradually into the red exserted style: stigma 
oblong, yellow, tipped with green. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Pistil :—magnified, 
