dentation not reaching to the middle, somewhat recurved 
at the edge, ribbed underneath and reticulately veined, the 
uppermost often disposed in whorls of threes and fours. 
Flowerheads terminal, solitary, elongatedly cylindrical (four 
inches long and rather more than one in diameter), sticky 
to the feel from the honeyed liquid that overruns the co- 
rollas. Lower extrafloral bractes of the flowerheads larger, 
unequal, elongated, few, close-pressed, dark brown, thick 
obtuse and tomentose: interfloral ones shaggily furred and 
of a reddish rusty brown colour. Corolla sericeous, little 
more than half an inch long; ungues pale greenish yellow; 
blades ovally oblong, tawny yellow. Style pale, smooth, 
scarcely at all enlarged at the end, hardly longer than 
the corolla: stigma scarcely thicker, short, conical, ob- 
‘tuse, white, smooth. 
A greenhouse plant, of easy culture. 
