which, no doubt, serves so to direct the visits of insects as 
to insure cross fertilization. 
R. grandiflora was sent to the Royal Gardens by Mr. Bull, 
F.L.S., of Chelsea, who introduced it from Demarara. 
Descr. An undershrub, five to six feet high, erect, much 
branched, clothed more or less densely with rather stiff 
spreading hairs. Stem and branches cylindric. Leaves two 
to three inches long, broadly ovate-cordate, acuminate, 
serrulate, 7-nerved, hairy on both surfaces, especially on 
the nerves beneath, bright-green above, paler beneath, trans- 
verse nerves slender; petiole variable in length, half to one 
inch. Panicles six to ten inches long, lax, leafy, slender, 
erect, branched ; bracts leafy, uppermost sessile and lanceo- 
late. Flowers two inches in diameter ; pedicels short, slender. 
Calyx one-third inch long, ovoid or urceolate, hispid; lobes 
subulate or filiform. Petals elliptic-obovate, acute or apicu- 
late, bright rose-coloured. Stamens sharply arched forward, 
the dorsal much the largest, with a red filament, clavate con- 
nective and yellow recurved beaked anther; four smaller 
stamens not half the size; five smallest rudimentary. Style 
slender, red.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1. Flower with petals removed; 2, 
petal and rudimentary stamen :— 
both magnified. 
