bright red-purple colour. Leaves on slender red petioles, 

 two to three inches long ; Made four to six inches long, very 

 obliquely ovate-lanceolate, deeply two-lobed at the base, the 

 lobes rounded, margin lobed and acutely serrate, bright 

 green above, with a few small scattered hairs, paler below, 

 the nerves on both surfaces, as well as the margin, of a 

 bright red colour. Stipules oblong, red, usually serrulate or 

 erose. Cymes axillary and terminal, many-flowered ; pedun- 

 cles and pedicels slender, red ; bracts opposite, obovate or orbi- 

 cular, obtuse or acute, red, serrulate or quite entire. Flowers 

 one inch in diameter, orange or pale coppery-red, varying to 

 a dirty rose-red; male with four leaflets, of which the two 

 outer are almost orbicular, the inner much narrower ; female 

 with usually five leaflets, irregular in size. Stamens nume- 

 rous, free, sessile on the receptacle ; anthers oblong, obtuse. 

 Ovary three-celled, placentas entire ; stigmas three, with 

 short arms. Capsule with three subequal wings. — J. I). II 



Fig. 1. Stamen. 2. Unripe capsule. 3. Transverse section of ditto :- 

 magnified. 



