received specimens from the Ancles, gathered at elevations of 

 from 9000-10,000 feet, and more recently from Mr. Spruce, n. 

 5833. We have the same from M. Triana, from New Granada, 

 and from Ruiz and Pavon's herbarium, gathered in the Andes 

 above Lima, in Peru, and from the late Mr. M'Lean, from the 

 same locality. It is well suited for greenhouse cultivation. 



Descr. A much branching shrub, with opposite branches and 

 leaves, the whole plant, save the petals, covered with a dense 

 mass of close-placed hairs, rusty-coloured when dry. Leaves 

 about three inches long, petiolate, ovate-oblong, entire, 5-nerved ; 

 the nerves united by obliquely transverse veins. Panicles ter- 

 minal, leafy below. Calyx hispid, with subulate, spreading 

 bristles, turbinate, crowned by five spreading, broad, subulate 

 lobes. Stamens ten, nearly equal, obliquely obovate, purple. 

 Pistil: ovary free, ovate, hispid above. Style filiform, longer 

 than the ovary. Stigma obtuse. 





Pig. 1. Calyx and pistil. 2. Petal. 3. Stamen. \. Pistil :— more or less 

 magnified. 



