time by Messrs. Veitch, who sent the specimen here figured 
in September last. . 
Duscr. An erect shrub, three to six feet high; branches 
. alternate, and as well as the twigs and leaves, clothed with 
dense more or less silky hairs. eaves alternate and oppo- 
site, sessile, one-quarter to one inch long, divided to the 
base into narrowly lnear-oblong obtuse or acute slightly 
curved segments, margins quite entire and recurved; midrib 
very strong. lowers two to three inches in diameter, on 
slender terminal peduncles one to three inches long. Bracts 
of about ten linear leaf-like segments, placed close under the 
calyx. Sepals five, half an inch long, ovate-lanceolate, 
acuminate. Petals five, broadly ovate-cuneate, tip rounded or 
retuse, golden yellow, contorted in estivation. Stamens ten, 
much shorter than the petals; filaments slender, yellow; 
anthers about as long, linear, orange-yellow. Ovary ovoid, 
silky, 5-celled ; stigmas five, sessile, linear, red-purple, spread- 
ing. Ovules many, 2-seriate in each cell. Capsule loculicidally 
d-valved ; valves cohering by the septa with the axis. Seeds 
numerous, angled; albumen thin, fleshy; cotyledons folded. 
—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Branch and leaves; 2, fl i ; : a 
all magnifi si, ; #, flower with petals removed; 3, ovary: 
