Ceratostema
(from keras, a horn, and stemon, a stamen; in reference to the anthers being bluntly spurred at the base). ORD. Vacciniaceae. Very pretty greenhouse evergreen shrubs. Flowers almost sessile, lateral and terminal, pedunculate; corollas large, scarlet. Leaves oblong, on short petioles, almost veinless, coriaceous, rounded, and sub-cordate at the base. They require a compost of sandy loam and peat; and are readily increased by cuttings, planted in sand, and placed under a glass.
C. longiflorum (long-flowered). fl. crimson. Andes of Peru, elevation 12,000ft. above sea-level, 1846. (B. M. 4779.) C. speciosum (showy).* fl. bright orange-red, about 1 3/4in. long; spikes short, axillary, secund, drooping. l. coriaceous, ovatelanceolate, with a short twisted petiole. Ecuador, 1870.