Descr. Our plant forms a charming shrub, six to eight feet 
high, with large, glossy, coriaceous, oblong or ovato-oblong, acu- 
minate eaves, tapering at the base into a short very thick /oot- 
stalk. "The cymes of richly coloured purple-red flowers, are 
sessile or nearly so, arising from the old wood just above the 
point where a pair of leaves have fallen, the rachis and pedicels 
short and thick; hence the flowers appear fascicled. Ovary 
inferior, turbinate. Calyz-limb of three to five or six rounded, 
unequal, concave, appressed Jobes. Petals four, very concave, 
orbicular-oval. Sfamens very numerous. Filaments red, much 
longer than the petals. Anthers very small, globose. Style 
filiform, rather shorter than the stamens, surrounded at the base 
by an elevated four-sided ring. 
Fig. 1. Ovary and calyx, from‘which latter part of the ring is removed :— 
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