paler beneath, much reticulated with very prominent veins 
on both surfaces. Corymés small, short, few-flowered, or 
many-flowered and then subglobose, subterminal and axillary, 
a quarter to one-third of an inch long; peduncles short, brac- 
teate, pedicels two-bracteolate ; bracts and bracteoles small 
and caducous. Calyx-tube subglobose, lobes five, triangular- 
ovate, acute, coriaceous, reddish. Corolla red, coriaceous, 
urceolate or almost globose, rather acutely five-angled ; lobes 
small, obtuse, contracted at the base. Stamens of equal 
length; filament short, broad, flat, white; anthers oblong, 
cells lobed at the base in front, pores oblong. Ovary five- 
celled ; style short, stout, glabrous.—/. D. H. 
Fig. 1. Leaf and portion of stem; 2, flower, pedicel and bracts; 3, ovary, 
calyx, style and stigma; 4, & 5, front and side view of anthers; 6, 
transverse section of ovary :—all magnified. 
