petioles of the leaves, is a dense tuft of soft spicules of a dirty 
brown colour. Leaves (on short thick peto/es) four to five or 
six inches long, coriaceous, glabrous, between ovate and ellip- 
tical, quite entire, acute at the base, shortly and suddenly acumi- 
nate at the apex, strongly five-nerved; zerves very prominent 
beneath, where the colour is pale green, while it is dark green 
above. Peduncle terete, as long as the finger, and, together 
with the thyrsoid panicle of flowers, drooping. Pedicels about 
as long as the calyx, which latter has the tube nearly globose, 
fleshy, pale rose; the very short margin or limb erect and erose. 
Petals four, spreading, broad-ovate, acute, rose-coloured. Stamens 
eight, pointing and spreading to one side: filaments subulate, 
white, curved: authers also subulate, deep purple, wrinkled on 
the upper side: at the base above formed into two incurved 
lobes, below furnished with a straight spur. Ovary combined 
with the calyx: style curved, subulate: stigma obtuse. 
Fig. 1. Flower, 2. Stamen :—maynified, 
