a cutting was received at the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 

 1898, which flowered freely in April, 1902. 



Descr, — Whole plant more or less glandular-pubescent, 

 with long, spreading hairs. Stem tall, simple or sparingly 

 branched, stout, terete. Leaves opposite, spreading and 

 decnrved, oblong or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, crenate, 

 fleshy, slightly hairy, base rounded, upper narrower ; floral 

 linear, bright green above, paler beneath; petiole very 

 stout, concave. Cymes terminal, trichotomously branched, 

 glandular-pubescent, many-flowered ; bracts linear ; brac- 

 teoles subulate. jF'/oziJ<?rs crowded, sessile, secund. Sepals 

 free, a quarter of an inch long, linear-oblong, acute, 

 glandular-pubescent. Corolla-fuhe a third of an inch long ; 

 limb nearly half an inch broad, segments oblong, orange- 

 red. Stamens eight Or ten in two series, or four in one series ; 

 anthers included. Dishglands subulate. Carpels three or 

 four, narrowed into short styles with capitellate stigmas. — 



Fi^. 1, calyx; 2, octandrous ami tetrandroua coroUag lail open; 4, disk- 

 glauds and carpels i—all enlarged. 



