cartilaginous, strongly ciliate margins, glaucous, coria- 

 ceous, glabrous or with, a few hairs on the upper surface. 

 Scapes 1-6, erect or slightly ascending, 2-4£ in. long, 

 terete, pilose, each supporting a 5-20-flowered umbel; 

 bracts lanceolate, acute, ^-\ in. long, pubescent or shortly 

 pilose ; pedicels rather unequal, ^— f in. long, terete, 

 pilose. Calyx turbinate or somewhat campanulate, pilose, 

 divided nearly to the middle into 5 ovate-lanceolate 

 obtuse or subacute lobes with wide scarious white 

 margins. Corolla salver-shaped; tube as long as the 

 calyx ; throat more or less prominently annulate ; lobes 

 obovate, obtuse, 1-4- in. long, J— J in. wide, spreading, 

 entire or very finely crenate, glabrous, vermilion or 

 cinnabar-red. Anthers oblong, almost sessile. Ovary 

 obovoid, surrounded at the base by a hard ring of scales ; 

 style short ; stigma shortly capitate or truncate. 



Fig. 1, leaf ; 2, hairs from the same ; 3, calyx ; 4, corolla, laid open ; 5 and 6, 

 stamens ; 7, pistil : — all enlarged. 



