white ground,” and it is no less remarkable from the rich fer- 
ruginous down on the branches, leaves beneath, stipules, calyx, 
etc., and there is a bright play of light on the dark green foliage 
occasioned by the prominence of the areoles of the very strong 
reticulations. It flowers in a cool greenhouse in May in the 
Royal Gardens. 
Duscr. A shrub, often pendulous from trees im its native 
country ; almost everywhere, except on the large corollas and on 
the upper side of the old leaves, densely clothed with a tawny 
or ferruginous tomentum, which is easily detached. Leaves, on 
moderately long petioles, three to four inches long, ovate-lanceo- 
late, rather finely acuminate, very dark blackish-green, glossy 
and very strongly and deeply reticulated. /Yowers very large, 
showy. Calyz large, of five deep, oval, spreading, membrana- 
ceous lobes, tomentose at the back, ciliated at the margins. 
Corolla broadly or almost rotately campanulate: the tude short, 
gradually spreading into the very ample, five-lobed /imd: the 
lobes waved and crenulated: the colour pure white, tinged with 
rose and sometimes also with yellow towards the base. Stamens 
long, but unequal: filaments hairy at the base: anthers dark 
purple. Ovary very hirsutely tomentose, oval, with a lobed disc 
at the base: style longer than the stamens: stigma peltate, with 
teeth like lobes on its disc. 
Fig. 1. Stamen. 2. Pistil and calyx. 8. Transverse section of ovary :— 
magnified. 
