are included in the last eimmeratioii of this genus; the 

 type of which is pretty generally distributed throughout 

 the four quarters of the globe. In the tribe or order are 

 comprised trees of the largest size, of some of which the 

 trunk is said to be 20 or 30 feet in diameter. 



Stent of the present species round, upright 



ghishly 



furred, numerously and roddedly branched. Leaves 



nate, distant, green, roughly 



d 



dly furred, veined 



slightly wrinkled, neai-ly round, subcordate at the base. 

 Tipper ones 3-lobed, lower 5-l6bed, crenately toothed, the 

 largest about an inch and a half long, slightly undulated, 

 lobes round at the point, latei-al ones divergent, middle 

 one oblong and further extended ; petiole two or three times 

 shorter spreading: stipules 2, small, herbaceous, ovately acu- 

 minated, ciliated. i*ecfz<7zc/e9 axillary, in paire, sometimes 

 solitaiy, rarely ^-flowered, filiform, twice longer than the 

 petioles or more, bent in an obtuse angle a little below the 

 flower, otherwise quite straight, uprightly spreading. Flmvers 

 nutant, nearly an inch in diameter, of a pale flesh colour, 

 maorked above the base with 5 radiant crimson spots. Outer 

 calyx \ shorter than the inner, 3-4-leaved, stellately campa- 

 nulate, leaflets narrow linearly subulate slightly channelled 

 furred;, inner one half fivecleft, stellately furred, twice shal- 

 lower or more than the corolla, segments ovately acuminated. 

 Corolla campanulately rotate, petals CMn^oXQly obcordate, 

 not touching at the sides, unguis veiy shortly fiirred within. 

 Stamineous tube furred below with stellate or pencilled hairs, 

 branching and antherbearing above? anthers small, reni 

 form, with shagreened black-red cases. Styles 12? crimson 

 towards the stigmas; stigmas so many terminal glandular 

 whitish papillae not much wider than the style. 



The drawing was taken at the nursery of Messw. Whit- 

 ley, Bmmes, and Milne, Fulham. 



