

the Herbarium with fully formed leaves and flowers 

 together on the same branch. The leaves assume a bronze 

 hue late in autumu. 



Descr. A tall much branched shrub ; branches slender, 

 stiff, glabrous, young strigosely tomentose ; leaf buds 

 developed at the base of the pedicels of the flowers ; bracts 

 oblong, obtuse, silky, at length spreading and recurved. 

 Leaves subconical, one and a half to two inches long, 

 young silky, rhombic-elliptic, acute at both ends, dull 

 green and sparsely hairy above ; nerves three to four pairs, 

 subtrigose beneath ; unclersurface finely reticulate ; petiole 

 one-sixth to one-fourth of an inch long, tomentose. 

 Flowers usually in pairs ; pedicel one-sixth to half an inch 

 in diameter, strigosely villous. Calyx minute, five-toothed. 

 Corolla one and a half to two inches across the lobes, sub 

 two-lipped, bright rose-coloured ; tube very short, cam- 

 panulate ; lobes narrowly oblong, obtuse or subacute, 

 concave. Stamens ten, five upper much the shortest, five 

 lower declinate and ascending; filaments very slender; 

 anthers minute. Capsule ovoid-oblong, villous. — J. D. II- 



Fig. 1, Portion of undemuface of leaf ; 2 and 3, anthers ; 4, calyx and ovary: — 

 all enlarged. 



