living plants to Messrs. Hugh Low and Son, of the Clapton 
Nursery. 
Descr. Suffruticose. A foot and rather more high, with 
four-anguled stem and branches, and opposite /eaves, slightly 
scabrous above, with short sete, elliptical in form, obtuse, entire, 
penninerved, tapering at the base into a moderately long petiole. 
Panicle very compound, terminal, spreading, formed of the nu- 
merous flowering branches, each of which forms a corymé of 
many flowers, of a bright rose-colour, nearly an inch in diameter. 
Tube of the calyx globose, tuberculato-muricate ; /imé of five, 
spreading, ovate, large, at length reflexed segments. Pefals 
four, spreading, rhombeo-orbicular, a little concave, shortly 
unguiculate. Stamens of two kinds: four smaller ones, with a 
very minute connectivum and an erect anther ; four longer ones, 
with a long connectivum, as long as the anther, bifid at the base, 
attached transversely to the apex of the filament, and remarkably 
deflexed.’ Ovary quite concealed within the muricated calyx- 
tube, four-celled. 
Fig. 1. Calyx, with the capsule bursting at the apex. 2. Fruit (and calyx- 
tube), cut through transversely. 3. One of the four lesser stamens. 4. One of 
the four larger ones :—all more or less magnified. 
