sence of coarse hairs on the branches, calyx, and flower-stalks, 
and in the margins of the leaves being fringed with blackish 
bristles. Bonpland also speaks of a degree of hairiness, which 
our plant does not possess, and it is probably, like the ferru- 
ginous down beneath the leaf, of a fugacious character. In 
other respects our plant sufficiently accords with his figure. It 
appears to be found in New Granada, as well as in Peru. 
Drscr. A shrub, according to Bonpland, attaining a height of 
eight feet: the branches, peduncles, and calyx, clothed with soft, 
ferruginous, woolly down. Leaves scattered, elliptical-ovate, on 
short petioles, acute, penninerved, coriaceous, green (pale in our 
specimen) above, somewhat glaucous beneath, and there more or 
_ less clothed with rusty down or wool, more so in the younger 
foliage. Corymés terminal, of several large, fine, rose-coloured 
flowers. Calyx deeply seven-lobed ; lobes oval, close pressed to 
the base of the corolla. Petals erecto-patent, obovato-spathulate. 
Stamens varying from seven to fourteen, unequal, but all shorter 
than the corolla. Filaments curved, thickened, and hairy at the 
base. Anihers opening by two pores at the apex. Ovary sub- 
rotund, seven-celled. Style a little longer than the corolla. 
Stigma a convex, five-lobed disc. 
ia Calyx and pistil. 2. Stamen. 3. Ovary. 4. Section of ovary :— 
