Hugel above quoted, but there are some discrepancies in 

 the description. It was raised from New Holland seeds, 

 sent by Mr. Drummond, in the Royal Botanic Gardens of 

 Kevv, where it bears its copious flowers in autumn. 



Descr. A small, bushy shrub, with us two to three feet 

 high, much branched : the branches downy, and, as well as 

 almost every part of the plant, hispid with scattered, stel- 

 lated tufts of rufous, rather rigid hairs, which are often 

 stipitate. Leaves petiolate, rather large, cordate, some- 

 times subhastate, rigid, angled, and sinuato-dentate. 

 Petioles rounded, shorter than the leaves. Stipules large, 

 leafy, sessile or subpetiolate, broad, nearly cordate, and 

 frequently trifid. Racemes opposite the leaves, and some- 

 times longer than they. Flowers secund, large. Pedicels 

 bracteated. Calyx large, coloured, purple, resembling a 

 corolla, rotate, subplicate, quinquefid, the segments broadly 

 ovate, acute, externally, especially near the base, stellato- 

 pilose with rufous hairs, and at the base having a large 

 trifid or almost tripartite, hairy bractea. Stamens with 

 five sterile and five fertile subulate filaments, ciliated at 

 the margin, united at the base, so as to be monadelphous. 

 Anthers ovate, hairy ; the hairs deflexed. Ovary depresso- 

 globose, tomentose. Style filiformi-subulate, glabrous. 



Fig. 1. Sterile and fertile Filament. 2. Pistil: — magnified. 



