niveined, glabrous above, beneath minutely punctated with very 

 minute scale-like dots. Petiole one to two inches long, and the 

 costa beneath, rufo-pubescent. Stipules large, membranaceous, 

 subulato-lanceolate, deciduous. Peduncles axillary, short, fasci- 

 cled, bearing from two to three flowers and a bract beneath them. 

 Petals four, rose-colour, two larger subovate, two smaller ob- 

 long-linear. Male fl. Stamens sessile, arranged in a closely 

 imbricated cone-shaped mass. Fem. fl. with a nearly cylin- 

 drical tomentose ovary : tomentum mixed with laciniated scales. 

 Capsule more than an inch long, siliquiform. Styles four, linear- 

 clavate (not capitate). — The elongated inferior ovary, crowned 

 with four spreading rose-coloured petals, very much resemble 

 the flower of an Epilobium with irregular petals. 



Pig. 1. Male flower. 2. Cluster of stamens. 3. Portion of a stem with 

 bracts and flowers. 4. Styles. 5. Seed-vessel. 6. Transverse section of the 

 same. 7. Scale from the surface of the capsule -. — magnified. 



