rolled together, as is usually the case, but spread open. 
The blossoms are at first pale-greenish rose colour, 
gradually changing to deep red, so that there are many 
different hues upon the plant at the same time. It pro- 
pagates very readily by cuttings, and will soon become a 
common plant. It flowers continually during all the summer 
months. 
Stem branched, shrubby ; branches weak, round, ash- 
colour, covered with very minute down. Leaves ovate, 
obtuse, on long stalks, covered on both sides with 
minute pubescence, paler beneath; sometimes opposite, 
sometimes nearly opposite, often quite alternate; stipule 
very minute. Flowers small, axillary, solitary, with the 
peduncles the length of the petioles, and capillary. Tube 
of the calyx funnel-shaped, rather longer than the limb, 
which is divided into oor sharp-pointed pieces. Petals 
oblong, flat, very much spreading, wavy, obtuse. Stamens 
almost, but not quite, enclosed in the calyx. Stigma a long 
way protruded, capitate, undivided. 
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