ready flowerer, the plants, with three or four of these splendid — 
heads, being little more than a foot high. The species has stood 
the winter well at Exeter. 
Drscr. Apparently a small or moderately sized shruéd, with 
the habit of small plants of 2. maximum, or still more of &. 
Catawbiense, having stout branches, of which the younger ones 
are green and subherbaceous. Leaves on short petioles, three 
to four inches long, elliptical, obovate, acute, often almost mu- 
cronate at the point, tapering at the base, except in the upper 
leaves, glabrous and naked on both sides, paler coloured on the 
‘underside. Beneath the flowers the leaves are generally more 
crowded, so as to form a sort of involucre to the large umbellate 
head. Calyx small, five-lobed ; the lobes form a broad base, al- 
most subulate, slightly hairy. Corolla, in bud rich carmine, 
when fully expanded broad campanulate ; tube short, suddenly 
spreading into five, broad, oval, crisped lobes; the ground co- 
lour is then pale pink, deeper towards the apex of the lobes, and 
streaked with darker rose; three upper lobes with small yellow 
spots within. Sfamens 10, unequal, shorter than the corolla; 
jilaments deep rose, thickened and downy below. Azthers deep 
pink. Ovary elliptical, with five longitudinal furrows, clothed 
with long, appressed, silky hairs, five-celled. Sty/e rather larger 
than the stamens, glabrous. Stigma with five very minute 
points. 
Fig. 1. Stamen. 2. Calyx and pistil. 3. Transverse section of the ovary. 
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