more or less after flowering, two to four inches long, 

 obovate, narrowed into a very short petiole ; tip rounded, 

 or truncate and emarginate with an apiculate gland in the 

 sinus ; margins entire, obscurely undulate or sinuate and 

 ciliate, very young tomentose beneath. Flowers produced 

 before the leaves, umbellate; pedicels and calyces 

 glandular-hairy. Calyx lobes about one-sixth of an inch 

 long, broadly oblong or rounded, persistent. Corolla three 

 inches in diameter, pale rose-coloured, tube none or very 

 shortly infundibular; lobes broadly ovate, spreading, the 

 throe upper speckled with red-brown towards the base. 

 Stamens 10, filaments very slender, pubescent below ; 

 anthers small. Ovary short, conical, obtuse, densely 

 glandular, 5-celled ; style slender, glandular-pubescent 

 below the middle; stigma small, truncate. Capsule two- 

 thirds of an inch long, oblong, obtuse glandular. — J. 1). H. 



Fig. 1, Tip of young leaf ; 2, calyx and Btyle; 3 stamen; 4, ovary :-all 

 enlarged; o, capsules, of the natural size. 



