Desce. A small rigid shrub, hispidly hairy all over, 

 except the bracts, corolla, stamens, and style ; branches 

 strict terete. Leaves two and a half to three and a half 

 inches long, elliptic- or oblong-lanceolate, acute at both 

 ends, with the costa excurrent at the tip, margins ciliate 

 slightly recurved, scabridly hispid above, with about seven 

 pairs of impressed arched nerves which are very prominent 

 and hispid beneath, under surface pale green, covered 

 with minute lepidote scales ; petiole very short. Flowers in 

 loose terminal sub-umbellate fascicles ; pedicels one to one 

 and a half inch long, surrounded at the base by oblong 

 scarious convex sub-acute imbricating pubescent yellowish 

 bracts a quarter to one-third of an inch long. Calyx very 

 small, hispid and lepidote, five-cleft, lobes ovate, acute. 

 Corolla one and a half inch in diameter, white flushed with 

 pink, tube short, campanulate; lobes oblong, obtuse, spread- 

 ing, about twice as long as the tube. Stamens ten ; filaments 

 glabrous, slender and spreading, nearly as long as the 

 corolla-lobes ; anthers small. Ovary small, ovoid, five- 

 celled, hispid and lepidote ; style decimate, slender, hairy 

 towards the base ; stigma rather large, depressed-capitate, 

 crenate. Capsule about twice the length of the calyx, 

 oblong, obtuse, hispid. — J. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Apex of leaf, seeu from beneath, showing the lepidote scales and ex- 

 current costa ; 2, calyx and ovary ; 3, anther ; 4, ovary ; 5, transverse section 

 ot the same ; 6, calyx and very youug fruit :— all but Jig. 6 enlarged. 



