suffruticose ; it comes also from the same country. Dr. Wight, 
the first describer, whose name we adopt, says it is abundant by 
roadsides about Sisparah, and a very conspicuous species. “ At 
first,” he observes, “a few pale pink flowers expand; these are 
followed successively by others as the branches elongate, until 
at length each branch is several inches long, covered along the 
upper edge with a row of capsules and two or three flowers at 
the extremity; the branches in the meanwhile extending hori- 
zontally and slightly approaching each other, present somewhat 
the form of the letter V.” We have mature native specimens in 
our Herbarium, showing the correctness of this character as the 
fructification advances. With Messrs. Veitch, this plant flowered 
in the stove in January, 1857. 
Drscr. Plant probably a foot high, branched; the branches 
four-sided. Leaves opposite, on rather long red footstalks, four 
to five inches long, ovate, acuminate at the base, ciliato-serrate, 
hirsute, five- to nine-nerved, these connected by obliquely trans- 
verse nervelets, full dark and bright green above, reddish-purple 
beneath, where the nerves are prominent. Peduncles solitary, ter- 
minal upon the apex of the branches, and bearing a dichotomously 
divided eyme, and many flowers on the upper side of the branches. 
Pedicels short, thick, often tinged with red. Calyx oblong-tri- 
quetral, adherent with the ovary, and villous with spreading hairs, 
which are glandular at their tips ; /imé of three, triangular, spread- 
ing lobes. Petals three, horizontal, rather long, rose-colour, obo- 
vate, acute. Stamens three. Filaments deep red, nearly erect, 
subulate ; anthers inclined downwards from a cordate base, taper- 
ing into a long apex, which forms a double tube communicating 
with the anther-cells. Capsule three-celled, with numerous small 
seeds attached to a receptacle in the inner angle of each cell. 
Style ved, longer than the stamens, curved downwards. 
Figs. 1 and 2. Back and front view of the stamens. 3. Calyx and pistil. 
4. Transverse section of the immature fruit :—magnified. 
