Descr. A small shrub; branches slender, hispid with rigid 
spreading hairs, red-brown. Leaves few, crowded at the ends 
of the branches, two to four inches long, narrow linear- 
lanceolate, 41-inch in diameter, narrowed into a short hispid 
petiole ; margin revolute, undulate, ciliate. //owers crowded, 
fascicled at the ends of the -branches ; bracts linear or 
setaceous, green ; pedicels short, and sepals hispid with gland- 
tipped hairs. Calyx segments linear-subulate, one half-inch 
long. Corolla one-and-a-half to two inches in diameter, of five 
subulate-lanceolate recurved red-purple acuminate petals. 
Stamens five, filaments as long as the petals, slender, slightly 
pubescent, red; anthers small, dark-brown. Ovary densely 
clothed with erect stiff bristles, five-celled; style slender ; 
stigma capitate—/J. D. H. 
Fig. 1. Flower with petals removed; 2. petal. 3. stamen. 4, ovary- 
5. transverse section of ditto :—all magnijied. 
