Stems six to eight inches long, prostrate, rather stout, 

 obscurely tetragonous, branching, leafy. Leaves opposite, 

 shortly petioled, one to one and a half inches long, 

 orbicular or orbicular-ovate, sub-acute, base rounded ; 

 nerves deeply impressed above, stout beneath. Fioivers 

 solitary on the ends of the branches, shortly pedicelled, 

 two inches broad. Calyx- tube hemispheric, armed with 

 rigid, bulbous-based bristles ; lobes ovate, acute ; sinus 

 between the lobes armed with a rigid, forked appendage, 

 arms of the fork divaricate. Petals obliquely obovate, 

 rose-purple. Connective of the larger stamens elongate, 

 bifid or two-lobed at the base ; of the smaller reduced to 

 two tubercles. Ovary hispid, sunk deep in the calyx-tube. 

 —J. D. H. 



Fig. 1, calyx and style; 2, process from between the calyx-lobes; 3 and 4, 

 larger stamens ; 5, smaller stamen : — all enlarged. 



