very obtuse or often retuse, dark green above, the younger 
ones paler, the old ones a little inclined to ferrugmous be- 
neath, and there furfuraceous with numerous minute scales. Um- 
bels terminal, of six to eight or nine flowers. Peduncles about 
two-thirds of an inch long, red, hairy. /owers moderately 
drooping. Calyx minute, yellow-green, ciliated and squamulose, 
five-toothed ; teeth very short and acute, but one longer than the 
rest. Corolla an inch and a quarter or an inch and a half long, 
rather bright scarlet, tubuloso-infundibuliform, the base ventri- 
cose, the limb short and moderately spreading, of five rounded 
lobes. Stamens a little exserted, ten; filaments glabrous, and 
slightly thickened below; anthers tawny. Ovary oblong, five- 
angled, squamulose, inserted on a lobed glandular disc. Style 
filiform, rather shorter than the stamens, thickened below the 
stigma. 
Fig. 1, Stamen. 2. Calyx and pistil. 3. Section of ovary :—magnified. 
