Of the nature of the curious appendages to the leaflets 
of the involucrum, which are so conspicuous in this species, 
it is difficult to offer an explanation. We are diposed to 
think them the last rudiments of the laminz of the leaves 
when transformed to involucrum; and that the leaflets, as 
they are called, of the involucrum, are in fact leafstalks 
under a peculiar form; a conjecture which derives some 
probability from the striking similarity in texture and sur- 
face between the leaflets of the involucrum and the petioles, 
and between the appendages of the involucrum and the 
leaves themselves. 
Requires the protection of a stove, and is readily in- 
creased by cuttings. 4 
A small shrub, with pale, somewhat angular, villous 
branches. Leaves cordate, sometimes cordate-ovate, usu- 
ally 3-lobed, crenate-toothed, downy, somewhat angular, 
with the middle lobe ovate, larger than the side ones, which 
are placed nearly at right angles with it; leafstalk villous, 
the length of the leaf; stipules subulate, deciduous. Flowers 
solitary, axillary, with a villous stalk nearly the length of 
the leaves. Involucrum 12-leaved, the length of the calyx ; 
leaflets linear, erect, strigose, hairy, at the end with a flat 
ovate appendage. Calyx campanulate, 5-lobed, strigose- 
hairy, with ovate obtuse lobes. Corolla large, flesh-coloured, 
expanded, with oblique, falcate, wavy, obtuse petals. An- 
thers many, columnar. Stigmas 5, spreading. 
J. L. 
