as long, ovate or oblong-lanceolate, deep green and glabrous 

 above, below paler and as well as the margins covered with 

 a fine appressed pubescence ; nerves strong and numerous, 

 margin coarsely serrate. Mowers in large axillary sessile 

 fascicles of eight to fourteen together, pedicelled, pedicel 

 half an inch long, with an oblong-lanceolate bract of the 

 same length at the base. Calyx greenish-red, of five linear 

 lobes with recurved apices. Corolla scarlet, pubemlous, two 

 inches long, five times as long as the calyx ; tube dilated 

 below the mouth, with a ring of hairs near the base ; lobes 

 short, obtuse, recurved. Stamens two ; filaments dark purple, 

 slender, very long and exserted ; anthers parallel, cohering 

 by their tips, red purple. Staminodes, three small bristles. 

 Ovary very slender, stipitate, the stipes inserted in a tumid 

 disk ; style stout ; stigma two-lobed. — J. D. H. 



Fig. 1. Calyx and ovary. 2. Base of ovary, its stipes and disk :— loth 

 magnified. 



