lobed, soft, slightly villous, especially below, where they 
are paler, veined, lobes unequal, obovato-elliptical, gene- 
rally only one of them is mucronate: petiole an inch long, 
filiform, resembling the branches. Peduncles about two 
inches in length, solitary, opposite to the leaves, pendent, 
capillary, slightly thickened upwards. Calyx of a bright 
vermillion colour, pentagonal, five-cleft, the segments blunt, 
mucronulate, on the outside tipped, as well as the spur 
with purple, on the inside tipped with green, the whole 
inner surface glandular; spur erect, about one-third of the 
length of the peduncle, awl-shaped, nectariferous. Petals 
five, (three lines long,) yellow, subexserted, inserted below 
the incisions of the calyx, obcordato-spathulate, unguicu- 
late, dilated at the base over a slightly swollen pit. Stamens 
eight, included ; filaments glabrous, colourless, dilated at 
the base, and having on the outside of the insertion of each 
a pit, similar to that at the base of the petals: anthers 
* oes cernuous. Germen glabrous, three-lobed, lobes 
eeled. Style glabrous, shorter than the stamens, grooved 
on three sides, three-toothed at the top, one of the teeth 
larger than the others and grooved. 
This beautiful species flowered in the greenhouse of the 
Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, in March, 1832. Graham. 
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Fig. 1. Flower and Peduncle, 2, Flower laid open. 3. Petal. 4. Stamen. 
5. Pistil :—magnified, 
