Descr. Shrub erect; branches erect, and, as well as the 
whole plant except the corolla and parts within it, uenseyy 
covered with coarse, harsh, reflected, yellowish hairs, whic 
are distinctly stellate on both sides of the leaves. Leaves 
(three inches and a half long, an inch and a half broad) 
scattered, spreading wide, petiolate, ovate, subcordate at 
the base, acuminate, strongly veined and wrinkled, darker 
above than below, where the midrib and veins are very 
prominent, coarsely and unequally serrated ; petioles about 
one-third of the length of the leaves. Stipules (half an inch 
long) slender, subulate, erect. Peduncles solitary, axillary, 
reaching nearly to the middle of the leaf, single-flowered. 
Involucre 5-partite, segments ovate, valvate and prominent 
at their edges near the base, five-nerved, with reticulated 
veins, wrinkled. Calyx longer than the involucre, five- 
partite, segments similar to those of the involucre, but 
rather less coarse, with the marginal nerves less conspicu- 
ous, at first erect, afterwards folded over the germen. Co- 
rolla (above an inch and a half long, two inches across 
when fully expanded) pentapetalous, orange-coloured, yel- 
low at the base, petals imbricated and convolute, dolabri- 
form, many-nerved, slightly tomentose, deliquescent in 
decaying. Stamens indefinite, monadelphous, inserted into 
the base of the petals, and uniting these to each other ; 
united filaments slightly tomentose; gradually smoother 
upwards, free portion glabrous; anthers kidney - shaped, 
unilocular, opening along the top, attached loosely in 
the sinus to the filament. Styles ten, cohering for above 
one-third of their length, glabrous, each terminated by a 
small pencil-shaped, crimson-coloured stigma. Germen 
oblong, wrinkled, green, of five verticillate lobes, each 
containing a single oblong ovule, compressed at its inner 
side, and there attached near its base to a central placenta. 
Carpels dark brown, much wrinkled, subglabrous, glabrous 
and nearly white within, where they are seen evidently to 
be bivalvular, but are not, I think, dehiscent. Seeds kidney- 
shaped, pale brown, glabrous, except along the back where 
there are a few, and at either extremity where there is a 
tuft of yellowish hairs. Graham. 
Fig. 1. Pistil -—magnified. 
