A strigosely pubescent shrub ; branches opposite, axillary, 

 upright, 2-furrowed, and of a deeper green at the edges of 

 the furrows. Leaves opposite, decussately wideset, ovally 

 lanceolate, spreading, 3-nerved, with a short stiff decum- 

 bent fur : petioles short, strigose, connected on each side 

 by a slight ridge bearing a line of longish outstretched 

 bristles. Cymes terminal, few (5) flowered, with a kind of 

 4-Ieaved involucre, bracteate, with white or pinkish subses- 

 sile flowers of about an inch or an inch and a half in dia- 

 meter. Calyx green, half 4 or 5-cleft ; tube muricated on 

 the outside, spines green spreading and radiately compound; 

 segments ovately oblong, taper-pointed, fringed, nearly of 

 the length of tube, surmounted by a long simple seta, 

 separated by a spine in the fork of each division, other- 

 wise smooth and without nerves. Petals 4-5, broadly obo- 

 vate, cuneately tapered downwards, fringed at the upper 

 edge." Stamens 8-10, shorter than the corolla: anthers li- 

 nearly tapered, deep yellow, stained with purple on the 

 inner side, beakless, perforated at the top, locidaments 2 

 adhering to the front of the receptacle which turns up and 

 is didymously protuberant at the base. Germen smooth, 

 4-5-celled surmounted by 3-10 setae at the end round the 

 base of the style, 3 setee being allotted to each cell ; style 

 green cylindrical, slightly curved. 



