to Kew, which flowered in May of the present year. The 
flowers are very fugacious. 
Duscr. Whole plant softly pubescent, subtomentose or 
almost woolly. Stems many from a perpendicular root, which in 
old plants is stout and woody, decumbent, six to ten inches lon g, 
slender. Leaves two to three inches long, the lower elliptic- 
spathulate, narrowed into long petioles, the remainder elliptic- 
lanceolate acute or acuminate, all uniformly pubescent on 
both surfaces, midrib and nerves very obscure. Mowers two to 
two and a half inches in diameter, solitary in the leaf-axils, 
or sometimes obscurely arranged in terminal or axillary few- 
flowered cymes ; pedicels very short. Calyx about one inch 
long, at first narrow, soon turgid, 10-nerved, veins obscure, 
teeth short, erect, green, with narrow membranous edges. 
Petals twice as long as the calyx, pale pink; claw ciliate, 
gradually dilating into the broad limb, which is 4-cleft ; lobes 
very variable, narrow or broad, equal, or the outer smaller 
or reduced to teeth, acute or obtuse ; there are two parallel 
white ridges on the claw which terminate in white teeth at the 
blade. Gynophore columnar, nearly glabrous. Stamens very 
unequal, five petaline very short; five sepaline with slender 
filaments. Ovary glabrous, ovoid; styles slender.—/. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Petal and petaline stamen ; 2, gynophore, very young ovary, and 
long stamens; 3, very young ovary and gynophore; 4, advanced calyx :-— 
all magnified. 
