penninerved, villous both above and beneath with soft appressed 
hairs. Peduncles solitary, terminal upon almost every branch, 
short, half an inch, or little more, long, and almost wholly con- 
cealed by an involucre of three to five ovate, concave, membra- 
naceous, erect, coloured (red) dracteas. Calya cut almost to the 
__ base into three oblong, obtuse, villous lobes. Corodlas large, deep 
—rose-colour: tube between infundibuliform and campanulate, 
obtusely five-angled and gradually widening into the large, 
spreading, five-lobed /imd ; the /obes rotundate, remarkably waved 
and crisped at the margin. Stamens five, unequal, deflexed and 
ascending. laments red, downy below. Anthers deep purple, 
apparently abortive. Ovary small, ovate, five-lobed, very hispid. 
Style nearly as long as the stamens, glabrous. Stigma with five 
_ obtuse points. 
: Fig. 1. Stamen. 2. Cal: d pistil. 3. Ovary. 4. Transverse section of 
- ditto :— magnified. les a see: 
