cordate, acute, petiolate, crenato-dentate, very soft and downy 
on both sides. Stipules subulate, green, deciduous. Peduncles 
axillary, solitary or two or three together, shorter than the leaves, 
bracteated at the base, erect. Znvolucre, at first exactly resem- 
bling a calyx, ovate, somewhat inflated, densely hairy or tomen- 
tose, striated, the mouth contracted, embracing the lower part of 
the corolla, unequally three to five-toothed, eventually separating 
into fifteen or twenty subulate Jeaflets. Calyx exceedingly 
minute, cup-shaped, membranaceous, five-toothed, hairy. Petals 
five, long, cuneato-spathulate, oblique, rose-red, streaked with 
white in their lower half: the imé patent. Staminal tube as 
long as the petals, striated. Anthers several, in two rows. Style 
filiform, the length of the stamens ; stigmas ten. Ovary of five 
lobes. 
Fig. 1. Calyx and pistil. 2. Calyx laid open :—magnijied. 
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