Descr. A moderate-sized shrub, four to six feet high, with 

 . ery downy branches, and copious, soft, spreading hairs, not 

 confined to the branches, but extending to the petioles and 

 peduncles. Stipules subulate, curved, deflexed, at length 

 deciduous. Leaves upon petioles about as long as themselves, 

 cordate, acute, scarcely, or but obsoletely lobed, toothed, or 

 subangulato- dentate, very downy, almost velvety on both 

 sides. Peduncles about as long as the petioles (but variable 

 in length,) axillary, solitary, single-flowered, articulated below 

 the calyx. Calyx rather five-partite than quinquefid, the 

 segments ovate, acute. Corolla rather large. Petals five, 

 cuneate, erecto-patent, imbricating one another, orange-yellow, 

 not very bright, but having a deep blood-red spot at the base 

 of each, forming an eye around the numerous stamens. Ovary 

 globose, hairy. Style with many branches. Stigmas small, 

 globose. Carpels numerous, composing a nearly globose, de- 

 pressed, downy fruit, shorter than the calyx. 



Fig. 1. Pistil: — magnified. 



