petals is white, but that is almost entirely obliterated by the rich 
carmine veining or reticulation, both without and within; but 
brightest on the upper side. 
Descr. A small shrub, with rather large, alternate, long-petio- 
lated, truly cordate, acuminated, sometimes angled, or slightly 
lobed /eaves, coarsely serrated, reticulately veined, glabrous; the 
principal nerves beneath, the slender petioles, peduncles, calyces, 
and young dranches clothed with ferruginous stellated down. 
Peduncles axillary, slender, dooping, about as long as the leaves, 
solitary, bearmg an imperfect umbel or few-flowered cyme, and 
accompanied by two small, ovate, acuminate leaves. Stipules 
small, subulate. Pedicels jointed above the middle. Calyz large, 
campanulate, five-lobed at the mouth; lobes ovate, acuminate. 
Petals cuneato-obovate, large, the broad lamina spreading, white, 
a and richly coloured with close, crimson reticulations. Staminal 
tube as long as the petals: anthers numerous. Ovary globose, 
woolly, about fifteen-celled. Style as long as the staminal tube, 
dividing into fifteen stigmas. 
Fig. 1. Ovary. 2. Transverse section of the same :—magnified. 
