A branching subviscidly furred shrub; bark generally 

 more or less red. Leaves scattered on all sides, standing 

 widishly apart, cordate, green, roughly furred, but Uttle 

 longer than broad, an inch and a half in length or upwards, 

 wrinkled, prominently veined underneath, crenately toothed, 

 obsoletely sinuated, sublobate before they are full grown; 

 petiole several times shorter than the blade. Stipules double, 

 short, ovate, bluntish, convex on the upper side. Peduncles 

 axillary, solitary, one-flowered, rough-furred, longer than 

 the petiole, with a leaflet near their foot. Flowers oblately 

 campanulate, flesh-coloured, about an inch and one third in 

 diameter, marked below with radiated crimson streaks. 

 Outer calyx equal to the inner, 3-leaved, leaflets very broad, 

 elliptically ovate, acuminated, shortly and roughly pu- 

 bescent ; inner one half Scleft, subangularly turbinate at the 

 lower part, at the upper spreadingly campanulate with brojid- 

 ly ovate sharp-pointed segments. Petals roundly obcordate, 

 lamina oblate with a wide shallow subrepand nearly obso- 

 lete sinus at the top, lapping over each other at their sides, 

 minutely ciliated below; unguis short, white. Stamineous 

 tube about i shorter than the corolla, marked at the base of 

 the petals, with 5 alternate crimson spots, smooth at the 

 lower part, bearded by a few short pencils or stellated villi 

 near the anthere : anthers black, renifonn ; pollen cinereous, 

 clotted, grains sphaerical smooth. Styles 12? crimson ; 

 stigma a pale glandular slightly broader papilla. 



The drawing was taken from a sample in the greenhouse 

 of Messrs. Whitley and Co. at Fulham, where it flowers for 

 a long time in succession during the summer months. 



