cent and sparsely hairy; bracts at the axils opposite, ovate, 
‘ minute; pedicels strict, slender. Calyz one-fifth of an inch 
long, narrowly turbinate, pubescent; lobes very small, 
triangular, recurved. Petals pale rose-coloured, one-third of 
an inch long, broadly ovate, almost rounded, obtuse. Longer 
anthers faleate, red, subacute, with one small terminal pore, 
and two tubercles at the base in front; smaller anthers 
nearly straight, pale. Ovary with a deep depression at the 
crown, its sides adnate to the calyx-tube by eight vertical 
plates in the cavities between which the anthers are lodged 
in the bud, the filaments being sharply deflected.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Vertical section of flower; 2, ditto of bud, showing the position of the 
anthers ; 3, larger stamen ; 3a, terminal pore of the same; 4, smaller anther; 5, 
terminal pore of the same ; 6, top of style and stigma; 7, transverse section of * 
calyx and ovary :—all enlarged. 
