ovately elliptical, serrately crenate, deerescent, cordate 
at the base, more thickly tomentose underneath, larger ones 
about five inches in length, and about three in breadth: 
petiole thick, short. Panicle terminal, numerous, nearly 
opposite, spreading, distant: peduncles corymbosely many- 
' flowered, shorter than the pedicles, subtended by small 
leaves gradually diminished into mere bractes at the upper 
peduncles: pedicles one-flowered, with a small subulate 
herbaceous bracte at their base. Leaflets of the calyx short, 
subulate, herbaceous, scarcely so long as the roundish furred 
inferior portion of the germen, of the outer covering of which 
they are a continuation. Corolla scarlet, pubescent, cla- 
vately tubular, nearly of the diameter of the stem of a swan- 
quill, shallowly protuberant at the base; lips of the limb 
very unequal, upper one very large, outstretched, one- 
coloured, sides deflectent ; lower one slanted, very short, re- 
volute, marked with a purple stain having a white border on 
_ the inside. Filaments furred, red. -Anther's cruciately con- 
joined. Sfyle scarlet, persistent, slightly protruded, furred. 
