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Descr. A small shrub, not exceeding two feet in height, on 
its native hills, erect. Branches reddish-brown, scurfy or scaly. 
Leaves three to four inches long, oblong-elliptical, rarely ap- 
proaching to lanceolate, acute, almost mucronate, subcoriaceous, 
the margin recurved, upper surface dark opake-green, more or 
less dotted with white scales, the younger ones especially very 
glaucous, and almost white beneath, lepidote with rather few 
scattered dark-coloured scales; petioles about four lines long. 
Umbel terminal, five- to eight-flowered, with numerous pale- 
green, concave, broad, ovate bracteas, which before the opening 
of the flowers form a sort of involucre, and usually fall away 
when the expansion is perfect. Pedicels scarcely so long as the 
flower, scaly. Calyx spreading, campanulate, pale-green, large, 
foliaceous, cut into five, deep, ovate, acute, veined /obes, exter- 
nally lepidote. Corolla in bud deep red, afterwards full rose- 
colour, externally glanduloso-punctate ; ¢ube campanulate, downy 
or woolly at the base within; /imd spreading, about one and a 
half inch across; the Jodes broad, obtuse. Ovary very scaly, 
naked at the base. Stamens ten ; filaments as long as the corolla, 
downy below. Anthers oval, opening by two pores above. Style 
a little longer than the stamens, thickened upwards. Stigma 
large, depressed, capitate, with five points. 
Fig. 1. Stamen. 2. Calyx and pistil. 3. Transverse section of the pistil :— 
