paler, with a few scattered, minute, black, glandular dots. 
Flowers in terminal and axillary short racemes, covered when 
in bud by large, imbricating, concave, scarlet, deciduous, ob- 
long, obtuse, coriaceous bracts, the longest nearly half an 
inch long. Pedicels short. Calyz-tube globose, limb. five- 
toothed. Corolla two-thirds of an inch long, glabrous, tubu- 
lar, but ventricose below, shortly five-toothed, bright red, with 
green tips and lobes. Stamens included, filaments very short, 
curved, glabrous; anthers slender, cells with long terminal 
slits. Style slender, stigma truncate.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2, Ovary. 8. Stamens :—all magnified. 
