logue. References for this plant to Rheed. Hort. Malab. v. 4. 
t. 43, and Rumph. Amboyn. v. 4. t. 71, are justly considered 
doubtful. 
Desor. A small shrud, one to two feet and more high; the 
young éranches subquadrangular, strigose. Leaves opposite, 
oval or approaching to ovate, acute, petiolate (petiole scarcely 
half an inch long, generally red), strongly three- to five-nerved, 
firm, subcoriaceous, entire; above, strigose with close-pressed 
rigid short hairs or bristles ; beneath, coarsely downy and hispid 
upon the prominent nerves. #/owers subracemose and terminat- 
ing short branches, only one on each branch opening at a time: 
these are very handsome. The calyzx-tube is between hemispherical 
and bell-shaped, clothed with coarse bristles ; towards the upper 
part and on the outside of the calyx-lobes are small scales, ter- 
minated by long stellate bristles; Zimb of five lobes, spreading, 
deciduous. Pedals five, large, obcordate, rich purple, spreading 
horizontally, slightly waved. Stamens ten; filaments moderately 
long, and nearly equal ; azthers uniform, linear, slightly spirally 
twisted, beaked at the apex and opening by a pore, and at the 
base having a small annulus, with a small two-lobed process in 
front. Ovary crowned at the summit with copious long bristles, 
which project beyond the mouth of the calyx ; style bent down 
in a direction opposite to that of the stamens ; stigma obtuse. 
Fig. 1. Calyx and pistil. 2. Stamen :—magnified. 
