mixed with rufous, stellate pubescence below, especially 
along the ribs and veins, undulate, obscurely sinuated, 
when young tomentum and pubescence alike on both 
sides, three-nerved, and often with a small additional nerve 
on each side, reticulately veined, the nerves and veins pro- 
minent below. Corymbs opposite to the leaves, digitate, 
the branches flat during full flowering, before and after this 
period connivent. Flowers arranged alternately along the 
branches of the corymb, shortly pedicellate, cernuous, se- 
cund, so as to form a flat, continuous surface looking down- 
wards. Bracts three, lanceolato-elliptical, at the apex of 
each pedicel, and adpressed to the outer side of the flower. 
Calyx five-partite, alternate with the bracts ; segments ovate, 
acute, with seven parallel nerves on the inside, where they 
are greenish-white. Petals minute, purple, elliptical, un- 
dulate, alternate with the segments of the calyx. Stamens 
five, opposite to the petals ; filaments nearly colourless, 
thrice as long as the petals, and about one-third of the 
length of the calyx ; anthers purple, about half as long as 
the filaments, to which they are attached by the back, the 
face being turned outwards, linear, with an inconspicuous 
connective, bursting by two pores at the apex. Pistil 
about as long as the filaments ; stigma inconspicuous ; style 
straight, erect, and this with the inside of the calyx are the 
only parts attached to the corymb which are glabrous, every 
other portion being more or less densely covered with light 
tomentum and rufous stellate pubescence; germen glo- 
bular, densely covered with harsh, stellate pubescence, 
which here is of a pinkish colour, five-locular ; cells gla- 
brous within, and containing several ovules attached to 
central placente. Graham. 
Fig. 1. 2. Back and front view of a Flower. 3. Stamen. 4. Pistil. 5. 
Ovary cut through transversely. 6. Ovule :—magnified. 
