car and another in South Africa. Our specimens were raised 
from seed, and flowered in the Heath-house in July, 1863. 
Descr. A slender, bushy, erect shrub, four to ten teet high, 
with close-set, fastigiate, pubescent or tomentose branchlets. 
Leaves quaternate, close-set, whorled in fours, one-eighth of an 
inch long, linear, with revolute margins, glabrous. Flowers 
numerous, three or four together at the tips of all the branch- 
lets, on short, curved pedicels, nearly globose, one-tenth of 
an inch long, dull-red. Calyx-lobes unequal, three of them 
ovate-oblong, half as long as the corolla, fourth linear-oblong, 
as long as the corolla, all ciliate at the base. Corolla sub- 
globose, with four short, obtuse, ciliate lobes. Stamens in- — 
cluded. Anthers four or five, broad, obcordate-oblong, slightly 
cohering. Ovary pubescent, six-celled. Style exserted ; stigma 
broad, dilated, cup-shaped, dark-red.—J. D. H. 
_ Fig. 1. Branch and leaves. 2. Leaf. 8. Apex of branch with flowers 
4. Flower. 5 and 6. Stamens. 7. Germen and transverse section of 
ovary :—all magnified. 
