branches slender, terete green. Leaves two to three inches 
long, very uniform, elliptic-ovate subacute, narrowed into 
a slender petiole half their own length, deep green above 
with a white band along the midrib and nerves, red-purple 
beneath. lowers axillary, solitary, sessile. Calyx one- 
third to half of an inch long; segments narrowly lanceolate, 
acuminate, hairy. Corolla one and a half to one and three- 
quarters of an inch long, hairy externally, bright rose- 
pink; tube slender, gradually dilated from above the 
middle, where it is gently incurved ; limb flat, an inch in 
diameter, of five nearly subquadrately rounded bifid seg- 
ments. Stamens in contiguous nearly equal pairs, filaments 
slender quite straight; anthers linear-oblong, shortly ex- 
serted. Ovary ovoid, hairy; style slender, stigma shortly 
exserted.— J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, portion of corolla and stamens; 2, anthers; 3, stigma; 4, base of calyx 
and ovary ; 5, ovary cut longitudinally :—al/ enlarged. 
