gonous, of numerous imbricating appressed bracts. Bracts 

 one inch and a half long, ovate-lanceolate, concave, keeled, 

 serrate, pale green, veined. Flowers an inch to an inch and 

 a half in diameter, bright vermilion-scarlet. Bracts subu- 

 late. Sepals elongate-lanceolate, aristate, puberulous, longer 

 than the bracts. Corolla-tube longer than the calyx, upper 

 limb of one small erect lobe, convolute and concealing the 

 stamens ; lower lip broad, of three obovate- oblong, substipi- 

 tate, spreading lobes, the central the largest. Style very 

 slender. — J.I). H. 



Fig. 1. Bracts, calyx, and style : — mar/nijied. 



