An upright leafy shrub, growing to the height of 10 or 12 

 feet, hirsutely and viscidly furred, gi-een, axillarily branched. 

 Leaves soft, alternate, from an inch and a half to three 

 inches long, roughly furred, veined and slightly wiinkled, 

 about as broad as long, shaiply crenated, cordate, 5-7- 

 lobed, lobes obtuse shallowly sinuated, the middle one ovate 

 and longer: petiole 3 times shorter than the blade or more. 

 Stipules 2, ovately acuminated, short, entire, spread hori- 

 zontally. Peduncles axillary, generally double, one-flowered, 

 outspread, straight, filiform, roughly furred, mther shorter 

 than the leaf, 2 or 3 times longer than the petiole, generally 

 furnished with a leaflet or bracte at the base. Flowers of a 

 purplish pink, less than an inch in diameter, rotately cam- 

 panulate. Outer calyx three-leaved, aa short again as the 

 inner one, leaflets linearly lanceolate, flat: inner one half 5- 

 cleft hireute, segments ovately acuminated. Petals not 

 much longer than the calyx, touching each other by their 

 sides without lapping over; lamina or broad part oblately 

 round, veined, subcrenately eroded at the upper margin, of 

 a deeper red at the base; unguis short, whitish, slightly 

 Nin«i«8, ciliate. Column of stamens about J shorter than the 

 corolla, whitish, nearly naked, having only a few pencilled 

 or stellated hairs, marked with 5 crimson stains between 

 the petals at the base, bearing the anthers in a tuft at the 

 upper part: anthers rtm^oviHy blackish purple, 

 pollen of smooth ash-coloured globular grains, clotted. 

 Styles 12? w)sy-crimson, filiform, protruded beyond the 

 stamens; stigma a pale terminal glandular papilla but little 

 wider than the style. 



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

 ley, Brames, and Milne, Fulham. 



