or more axillary, panicled, narrow, 4-6 in. long, generally 
many-flowered, on the short branches often reduced to 
fascicles of flowers, or sometimes almost all to single flowers ; 
bracts scarious, caducous; longest pedicels 2-3 lin. long, 
often quite short. Sepals wide ovate or nearly orbicular, 
obtuse, 24-4 lin. long, pale with hyaline margin. Corolla 
red; tube straight, slightly widened upwards, 5-8 lin. long ; 
lobes wide ovate or nearly orbicular, obtuse, recurved or 
revolute, 2-23 lin. long. Stamens 15, filaments exserted, 
unequal, slightly widened above the base and bearing there 
on the inner aspect a 2-lobed scale which is hirsute on the 
outer side; anthers 2 lin. long; connective apiculate. 
Styles more or less connate from below upwards. Capsule 
5-9 lin. long, valves crustaceous. Seeds 34-4 lin. long, 
white, surrounded by a wing | lin. wide at the base, which 
soon breaks up into a fringe of hairs. 
Fig. 1, calyx and pistil; 2, sepal; 3 and 4, stamens; 5, base of a filament; 
6 and 7, anthers; 8 and 9, transverse and verticul sections of an ovary :— 
all enlaryed. 
