Perennial? herbaceous? upright, villously furred; 
branches round. - Leaves opposite, oblongly ovate, crenate, 
wrinkled, whitely tomentose underneath: petiole several 
times shorter than the blade. Peduncles 2-4, axillary, con- 
gregated, filiform, flexile, longer than the flowers. Cal. 
4 times shorter than the corolla; segments angularly ovate, 
stellately spreading, one rather larger than the rest. Corolla 
scarlet, villous, clavately cylindrical, slightly curved, rather 
more than an inch long, nearly of the diameter of a smallish 
pen, shallowly and subdidymously protuberant at the back 
of the base: dimb many times shorter than the tube, obso- 
letely bilabiate, segments equal, rounded, two lower lateral 
ones approaching each other so as to lap over. Stamens 
equal to the corolla; we perceived no signs of the rudiment 
of a fifth: filaments white, smooth: anthers connected nearly 
in a square, 4-celled, cells seated upon a fleshy papulous 
receptacle: pollen cream-coloured. Germen conical, vil- 
lous, narrow, rather shorter than the segments of the calyx: 
style filiform, continuous, slightly villous, piped: stigma 
open, simple. Glands 4, inserted at the junction of the 
calyx with the germen, 3 white small dentiform equidistant, 
1 yellow superior larger doubly dentiform. 
