where ; ranches with pale bark, densely leafy at the tips. 
Leaves close- set, spreading and recurved, fifteen to eighteen 
inches long by one to one and a-half inches broad, oblanceo- 
late in the young plants, much longer and more narrow in 
the old ones, acuminate, serrate, narrowed into a slender 
petiole about one to two inches long, margin somewhat 
waved, midrib prominent beneath ; veins numerous, close-set, 
arched, very slender. Vowers four inches in diameter, rose- 
red, produced from the leaf-axils in the young plant, from the 
wood in old ones, solitary or in pairs. Peduncle one to two 
inches long, stout, clavate, with small orbicular appressed 
bracts at the base, and two opposite ovate, small, appressed 
bracteoles about the middle. Calyx very short, with four 
broad obtuse lobes. Pefals about eight, obovate-oblong, 
rounded at the tip, glabrous on the back. Staminal-tube 
yellow; filaments dark purple; anthers numerous, most 
densely packed, linear. Ovary pubescent at the top, style very 
small, pointed.—/. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Peduncle, calyx, and ovary ; 2, portion of staminal tube, filaments, 
and anthers ; ; 3, filament and anther :—all magnified. 
