mities of the styles) terminal. Flowers in pairs along the 

 raehis, forming double lines, which are much crowded to- 

 gether, expanding from below upwards, every where yellow, 

 except the stigma, which is red. Calyx (an inch and a half 

 long) four-parted, woolly on the outside, the woolliness in- 

 creasing upwards. Anthers subsessile, in the oblong hollow 

 extremities of the calyx, linear-lanceolate. Style longer 

 than the calyx, curved upwards, pubescent, filiform, tumid 

 near the extremity, tipped with the red, subacute, some- 

 what angled stigma. 



This very handsome species produced a fine head of 

 flowers in the greenhouse of the Edinburgh Botanic Garden, 

 in October, 1830, the plant being above five feet high. 

 Graha?n. 



Fig. 1. Pair of Flowers. 2. Three Bracteas from their base.— Magnified. 



