clothed with a rather dense down. Leaves scattered, spread- 
ing horizontally or reflexed, lanceolate, gradually attenu- 
ated into a sharp and pungent point, the points often pur- 
ple, glabrous, dark-green above, paler beneath. Flowers 
in terminal, leafy spzkes, drooping, rather large. Peduncle 
exceedingly short, and clothed with a few, ovate, acute, 
greenish scales, and partly concealing the calyx, erect, ap- 
pressed, of five, lanceolate, acuminated, ciliated leaves, in 
my specimen not one-third of the length of the corolla. 
Corolla beautiful rose-colour : the twbe cylindrical, or nearly 
so; near the base and alternating with the calycine leaves 
are five depressed spots or foveole: the limb of five round- 
ish, but very'acute segments. Anthers five, sessile, just 
within the mouth of the corolla. Germen globose, with 
five small adpressed glands or scales at the base. Style as 
long as the tube of the corolla, a little swollen below the 
middle. Stigma capitate, yellow. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Pistil :—magnified. 
