lets. Leaves opposite, often remote, short-petioled, from 
oblong to lanceolate, entire, smooth, acuminate, 5-6 inches 
long, 2-3 broad. Stipules interfoliaceous, acute. Corymbs 
terminal, when they first appear, but long before all the 
blossoms expand a branchlet shoots forth from each side, 
and places them in the fork; divisions subtrichotomous and 
short. Flowers large, mouth of the tube lively red, the rest 
a bright pink, somewhat fragrant, and highly ornamental. 
Bractes opposite, triangular, acute. Calyx 5-leaved; leaflets 
oblong, smooth, permanent, with a smooth gland at. the 
top. Corolla funnelform; tube nearly 2 inches long, slender, 
even, except at the faux, where it swells considerably, 
orifice highly coloured and pubescent; segments of the limb 
obovate, oblong, equal. Filaments short, inserted round the 
bottom of the faux: anthers sagittate enclosed within the faux. 
Germens 2, or single and 2-lobed, superior, villous on the 
sides where they meet, a small subulate scale covering the 
fissure on each side; lobes or germens singly 2-celled, with 
one ovulum in each, attached to the middle of the partition; 
style nearly as long as the tube: stigma large with a 2-lobed 
apex, which is lodged in the dome formed by the converg- 
ing of the anthers. 
