A very handsome small tree, flourishing in the open 
border, in common garden soil, and remarkable for the 
dark, rich, brownish-red of the calyx and corolla. Petiole 
quite smooth, flat on the upper side. oliola 5, oval- 
lanceolate, acuminate at each end, finely but rather irre- 
gularly serrulate, more acuminate at the base than end. 
Nerves red, (as also petioles and stem), smooth beneath, 
covered with short, rusty tomentum above. Leaflets 
strongly nerved, so as to have a rugose plaited appearance, 
which is very strongly shewn in this plant. Thyrsus downy 
all over, red like the flowers. Pedicels nearly the same 
length as calyx, thickened upwards, with a few black 
hairs. Calyx tubular, campanulate, oblique at base, where 
it has several black hairs, red like the petals, with a green 
blotch on the upper side, not two-lipped, as in AL. flava, 
but bluntly 5-lobed, the two lateral lobes being much -the 
smallest: all ciliated with short black hairs. Corolla 
tubular, connivent, 4 or 5-petalled, closely studded with 
fine brown-red glands; claws downy, longer than calyx, 
all cohering by the down of their edges, pale outside, 
strongly coloured with yellow inside. Lamina of the two 
upper petals projecting a little beyond the lateral, obovate, 
plaited ; of the lateral petals oblong, retuse, concave, ap- 
pressed emarginate. Stamens 7, straightish, villous, smooth 
at end. Anthers orange red. Ovary often abortive, when 
perfect only slightly downy, pale red. Style thick, subu- 
late, turned upwards at end, pubescent, with a few reddish 
hairs. Stigma a red point. 4 
wld. 
