Dxscr. A moderately small shrud, a good deal branched, the 
branches subangular and, as well as the petioles (from one-half to 
three-quarters of an inch long), reddish, rough, with appressed 
sete. Leaves rather large for the size of the plant, handsome, 
broadly ovate, or ovate-lanceolate (superior ones almost lanceo- 
late), subcoriaceous, acuminate, entire, five-nerved, nerves united 
by transverse veins, dark green above, pale beneath; on both 
sides, especially beneath, strigose, with appressed, subulate sete. 
Corymbs few-flowered (four to six), terminal, leafy, bracteated ; 
bracts and pedicels reddish. Calyx with the tude urceolate, 
clothed with appressed, imbricated, small, fimbriated scales : limb 
of five or six, ovato-lanceolate, apiculate, deciduous, fringed or 
ciliated Joes: mouth of the calyx with five or six erect teeth or 
scales. Petals nearly white. Stamens: filaments rather short : 
anthers unequal, opening by a single pore at the apex, wrinkled 
on one side, bicalcarate or rather bigibbose at the base. Ovary 
below adnate with the tube of the calyx, setose at the apex: 
style about as long as the stamens, inclined and flexuose. 
Fig. 1. Portion of a leaf, showing the strigose setee. 2. Calyx, including the 
pistil. 3. Two of the stamens. 4. One of the appressed scales of the tube of 
the calyx :—magnijfied. 
