pressed rusty hairs. Floivers terminal, solitary, or in pairs.
Fcduncks short, thickly covered with close-pressed hairs.
Calyx deeply 5-cleft: the segments elongately lanceolate,
sharp-pointed, attenuated to the point, spreading or slightly
reflexed when the flower is expanded, clothed with close-
pressed hairs, and fringed with long spreading ones. Corolla
shortly tubular, bluntly 5-angular and 5-furrowed, rotate,
deeply 5-parted, spreading, flame-coloured: segments nearly
equal, ovate, furrowed on the upper side ; the two lower
ones more deeply divided ; upper one rather smallest, tinged
with lilac, and inconspicuously spotted. Stamens 10, short,
nearly erect: Jilaments red, hairy about half way up, the
upper part smooth, slender: anthers 2 lobed, attached by
their back to the filaments, bursting at the point for the
exclusion of the pollen: pollen white, stringy. Ovarium
densely clothed with long white close-pressed hairs. Style
smooth, bearing a few hairs near the base, bright red, very
long, exserted a great way beyond the stamens. Stigma
capitate, slightly lobulate, with a pit in the centre.
This splendid variety was imported by Mr. Tate, in the
Honourable East India Company’s Ship Orwell, from China.
It differs from the old variety in being much more branched,
with the branches more slender and spreading, instead of
upright. The flowers are much more abundant, and scarcely
more than half the size, and of a brighter crimson. It ought
to be planted in peat near a south wall, or other warm
sheltered situation, and ought to be protected by a mat in
frosty weather. The generic name is already explained at
folio 117.
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