erecto-patent branches, bearing small leaves at the forks. 
Flowers two-thirds of an inch in diameter, shortly pedicelled, 
erect. Calyx green, glandular; tube one-sixth of an inch 
long, oblong-campanulate, five-ribbed, green ; lobes longer 
than the tube, subulate-lanceolate. Petals twice as long as 
the calyx-lobes, broadly ovate, acute, ciliate, rose-red. 
Anthers nearly as long as the petals, nearly equal in size, 
slender, faleate, larger with a two-lobed tubercle at the 
base in front and a smaller simple tubercle behind ; smaller 
anthers with a simple tubercle in front and none behind, | 
Ovary quite glabrous, style long, stout, red, deflexed. 
Capsule almost globose, enclosed in the calyx-tube, three- 
celled, three-valved, valves rather crustaceous. Seeds very 
minute.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Calyx laid open and stamens; 2, long; and 3, shorter anthers; 4, ovarys 
5, transverse section of ditto :—all enlarged. 
