shaped, smooth,-decurrent bracteas near the middle, below 
which they are bright green, paler in the centre, and red 
towards the top. Calyx red, glabrous, persisting, of five 
rather unequal, subulate segments, (five to seven lines 
long,) spreading at right angles to the peduncles, and each 
with a very few obscure teeth. Corolla one inch long, red, 
marcescent ; tube compressed, cleft to its base along the 
upper side, but spreading little; limb five-parted, segments 
linear, subulate, with the apices deflexed, the two upper 
ones the broadest, the three others turned downwards, and 
that in the centre rather the smallest. Stamens shorter than 
the corolla, marcescent ; filaments white, smooth, forming 
a half cylinder, and united, except towards the base, where 
only they are free and pubescent ; anthers lead-coloured, 
terminated by a dense, white beard; pollen abundant, 
whitish. Stigma bilabiate, segments revolute, rounded, 
glandular, slightly hairy behind. Style as long as the 
stamens, yellowish, somewhat clavate, continued down- 
wards into the dissepiment, marcescent. Germen glabrous, 
bilocular, with a conical, empty beak, which afterwards 
falls down, rising above the calyx, otherwise inferior. 
Ovules numerous, attached to a central receptacle, the 
transverse section of which is kidney-shaped in each locu- 
lament. Seeds minute, pale brown, lenticular, hollow on 
one side; when seen under a microscope appearing dotted 
and shining. ' 
The seeds of this plant were obligingly communicated to 
me from Dominica, in September, 1828, by my valuable 
correspondent, Dr. Krauss; in acknowledgment of whose 
kindness, I have named the species. It first flowered in the 
stove of the Edinburgh Botanic Garden, in January and 
February last, and is ornamental. ‘ j 
In the arrangement of the species, Losenia Kraussit 
must stand near L. persicifolia of Lamarck. GRAHAM. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Stamens and protruded Stigma :—magnified. 
