by any means fully accord with Naudin’s brief remarks :—the 
branches can scarcely be called divaricate, the leaves are not 
linear-lanceolate nor quite entire, nor does the -character of the 
longer stamens (which with us are the sterile ones) quite 
accord. It is a native of the mountains of Oaxaca, in Mexico, 
and appears to have been discovered by M. Ghiesbrecht. 
Duscr. A small, compact shrub (as exhibited in the plant 
before us), much branched : the dranches nearly erect, straight, 
short, tetragonous, woody; the younger ones herbaceous, and 
more or less tinged with red. Leaves horizontally spreading, 
subapproximate, broad- or ovato-lanceolate, on very short petioles, 
rather obtuse, subcoriaceous, three- to five-nerved, the margin 
obscurely sinuato-crenate and ciliated, dark-green above, paler 
and slightly hairy beneath. Howers solitary, terminal, one and 
a half inch to two inches across, ovate or suburceolate, villoso- 
hispid, the limb of four or five, ovato-acuminate, spreading, cili- 
ated segments, of a bright-red colour (the whole calyx a good 
deal resembling that of Punica). Petals four to five, cordato- 
subrotund, purple-rose-colour, spreading, a little waved. Sfa- 
mens large for the size of the flower, eight or ten, of two kinds, 
four. to five fertile, four to five sterile, the fertile with taller and ~ 
slender red filaments, yellow fertile subulate anthers, and a slightly 
pedicellate appendage of nearly the same shape and size as the 
anther-cell, both suberect ; the sterile stamens have shorter red 
Jilaments, much dilated at the base, a bright-red abortive linear. 
anther, and a lengthened cultriform bright-red appendage, 
which spreads horizontally or is deflexed. 
