often thinly beset with spines at the under side. Peduncles 

 one-flowered, solitary, short. Outer calyx of about eleven 

 (more or less) linear pointed stiffish hispid spreading leaf- 

 lets: inner one likewise beset with hispid whitish hairs, the 

 length of the outer, rather spreading, 5-cleft to about two 

 thirds of its depth; segments ovate and pointed. Corolla 

 large and much longer than the calyx: petals widened from 

 a narrow unguis into a very broad rounded obtuse obsoletely 

 crenated outspread primrose-coloured lamina with a dark 

 blood-red base. Stamens and stigma black red, with pollen 

 of a colour between vermilion and crimson: stigma five- 

 cleft, capitate, flat, slightly furred. Germen shaggily fur- 

 red. Capsule ovate, five-celled, many-seeded. 



