nodes, opposite, sessile, or sub-sessile, about an inch long, 
orbicular-ovate, sub-acute, obscurely toothed, deep green, 
opaque, base rounded. Flowers from the upper leaf axils, 
corymbosely arranged, an inch and a quarter in diameter, 
pedicels shorter than the rather stout pruinose ovary, 
which is produced at the top into a funnel-shaped limb. 
Calyzx-lobes linear-oblong, dull red. Petals broadly ob- 
ovate, spreading, bright rose-coloured, deeply bifid. 
Anthers included, yellow. Style elongate, slender, decli- 
nate; stigma purple, lobes four, revolute. Capsule an 
ns os a half long, rather stout, obtuse. Seeds few.— 
_ Figs. 1 and 2, Anthers; 3, top of style and stigmas ; 4, ripe capsule, of nat. 
size; 5, seed :—All but fig. 4 enlarged. 
