both sides, obovato-lanceolate, tapermg below into a short /oot- 
stalk, the young leaves white-tomentose all over; the younger 
ones glabrous above, clothed beneath with white (rarely tawny) 
appressed flocculent tomentum. /Vowers rather numerous, mo- 
derately large, on short tomentose peduncles. Calyx very small 
and inconspicuous, indeed concealed by the narrow base of the 
corolla, oblique, obsoletely five-toothed. Corolla externally yel- 
lowish-lilac, mternally palish lilac, blotched with deeper lilac, and 
at the inner base having five, deep, blood-purple spots ; the form 
is broadly campanulate, narrow at the base of the tube but there 
five-lobed ; the limb spreading, five-lobed, retuse and slightly 
lobed and waved. Stamens ten, shorter than the corolla: jila- 
ments glabrous. Ovary oval, very tomentose, seated on a large 
fleshy lobed annular disc, generally six-celled. Style declined, 
curved upwards towards the apex. Stigma a mere obtuse point. 
Capsule oblong or oval-oblong, terete, olive-brown, downy. 
Fig. 1. Portion of the base of the corolla, seen from within. 2. Stamen. 3. 
Ovary. 4. Ditto, cut through transversely :—magnified. 5. Capsule :—unat. size. 
