1787. It differs from its congeners by an entirely regular 
cylindrically elongated corolla. 
We have seen no specimen which has exceeded three 
feet. Stem straight, about the thickness of a finger, 
naked and scarred downwards, upwards herbaceous and 
leafy. Leaves scattered in all directions, halfstem-embra- 
cing, spreading and recurved, elongatedly lanceolate, about 
three inches long and the half of one broad, convex and 
hispid above, smooth beneath, with a serrately hispid 
edge. Flowers large, pink or deeply flesh-coloured, dis- 
posed on the upper part of the stem in a recurved patent 
leafy panicle, of terminal and axillary divaricately dichoto- 
mous (or rather conjugate) nodding spikelets, rachis of each 
double flexuose- alternate one ranked and bracteate, outer. | 
half shorter, sometimes one- and always fewer- flowered, 
with a broader ovate leaf placed at the base of the divi- 
sions: bractes foliaceous, single, longer than the pedicles. 
Calyx herbaceous, rough, twice shorter than the corolla, 
deeply parted, segments lanceolate upright, one larger than 
the rest. Corolla from an inch and half to near two inches 
deep, cylindrical, narrowed downwards, quite straight; 
tube several times longer than the /imb, segments spreading, 
broader than long, rounded, with fine transverse wrinkles 
or plaits on the inside. Stamens reaching to the base of the 
limb, adnate for a third of their length, unequal, diverging, 
with a slightly assurgent bend. Style continuing. for 
some time attached to the germen after the corolla has 
fallen off: stigma emarginate. ; 
A greenhouse plant. Propagated by cuttings. Requires 
to be planted in peat-earth. Blooms in May and June. 
The drawing was made from a plant which flowered in 
the conservatory of Mr. W. Creswell, Earl’s Court, Bromp- 
ton, at the same time with its congeners candicans and 
Jfruticosum, figured in the first volume of this work, 
a Calyx. é The corolla dissected vertically. c Pistil.. 
