Glasgow Botanic Garden, to Mr. Tweenies, who collected 
them at Rio Grande do Sul, in South Brazil. It requires 
the heat of a stove, and blossomed with us in June. Cua- 
Misso speaks of it as a very variable species, and is inclined 
torefer to it the C. strigillosa, hieracioides, repanda (Martius, 
Ospecxia, DC.), and even C. fraterna and hirsuta, DC. 
Descr. Root perennial. Stem herbaceous, erect, nearly 
simple, rounded, or obscurely four-sided, clothed with long, 
spreading, rigid hairs. Leaves lanceolate, or oblongo-lan- 
ceolate, patent, rather rigid, three-nerved, clothed on both 
sides, and ciliated, with copious, harsh hairs, or bristles. 
Upper part of the stem nearly bare of leaves, or the leaves 
are reduced to small, oblong bracteas. Panicle subspicate. 
Flowers large and handsome. Calyx ovato-turbinate, 
bristly, with five acute, spreading segments. Petals five, 
large, broadly obovate, approaching to cordate, spreading, 
concave, rose-lilac, deeper at the base. Stamens ten, 
declined, unequal. Filaments bright rose-red. Anthers 
long, curved, attenuated upwards, yellow, opening by a 
single pore ; the base with two rounded tubercles. Germen 
oval, crowned with a silvery tuft of hairs or bristles. Style 
about as long as the stamens, flexuose. 
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Fig. 1.2. Stamens. 3. Calyx laid open to show the Pistil :—magnified. 
