figured is from Mr. Wilson Saunders’s rich collection. Those 
from Mr. Veitch’s nursery were much stouter in the stem, 
and had deep rose-coloured flowers. 
Descr. A foot high, stout or slender, branched, leafy. 
Stems and branches terete, vivid red, more or less covered 
with long white, spreading, rather stiff hairs. Leaves two 
to five inches long, dimidiate, ovate-cordate, very oblique, 
acuminate, margin lobulate, and acutely toothed, dark 
green and shortly hairy above, glabrous except on the ribs 
of the under surface, which is pale green, or faintly purplish ; 
petioles terete, red, and hairy, like the stems. Stzpu/es ovate- 
lanceolate, recurved, green. /Vowers one and a half inches in 
diameter, dark or pale rose-red, in terminal lax dichotomous 
cymes, horizontal or nodding, usually in threes, the central 
longer pedicelled and male. dale flower :—perianth 4-leaved ; 
two outer leaves broadly ovate, obtuse; two inner smaller, 
obovate-oblong. Stamens many, in a globose head, filaments 
short; anthers short, obovoid, obtuse. Female flower: 
—pertanth of five obovate oblong-obtuse leaves. Styles 
three, stigmatic arms short, with a continuous twisted 
papillose band; ovules very many, on all surfaces of a 
bipartite placenta. Young fruit 3-gonous, with 2 rounded, 
and one triangular acute wing.—J/. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Stamen; 2, female fiower, with perianth removed; 3, transverse 
section of ovary :—all magnified. 
