tains of from 1800 to 9000 feet. The flowers are particularly 
large and handsome, and there is a very distinct character in the 
union of the bases of the petioles into a very conspicuous elon- 
gated striated sheath, surrounding the branch, whence the spe- 
cific name is derived. Our drawing was made at Reigate, in 
June 1860, when the plant was in great beauty. 
Descr. A shrub, three to four feet high, with hairy and viscid 
stems and branches. Leaves opposite, broad-lanceolate, very 
acute, nearly entire, three-nerved, reticulated (and rugose beneath) 
very hairy, almost felted ; petioles united for a considerable por- 
tion of the length into a compressed striated very hairy sheath. 
Upper leaves small and bracteiform. Peduncles axillary, cymose, 
one- to eight-flowered. Vowers large, drooping. eta/s singu-, 
larly plicate or crisped, full rose-colour, yellowish at the base. 
Stamens very numerous, collected into a cup around the pistil. 
Ovary subglobose, arising from a crenulated fleshy disk. Style 
long, subflexuose. Stigma capitate. 
. Fig. 1. Leaf, with sheathing base,—nat, size. 2. Pistil,—magnified. 
