bracts leafy, longer than the pedicels, oblanceolate or 
wide-oblanceolate, acute, sparingly serrulate except near 
the base; pedicels about } in. long. Calyx turbinate, 
its lobes at first erect but soon spreading, with long 
white hairs especially near the base outside, uniformly 
clothed with short white hairs within ; tube }—% in. long ; 
lobes 5-6, wide-lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, apiculate, 
1_1 in. long, +1 in. wide, entire or irregularly serrulate, 
sometimes 2-fid. Corolla dark pink; tube under % in. 
long, about 1 in. wide, clothed outside with short white 
hairs but with a few longer intermixed; lobes 5-6, 
oblong, retuse, 1 in. long, } in. wide. Anthers small. 
Ovary subglobose, zz in. long; style glabrous; stigma 
rather large, capitate. 
Fig. 1, corolla in longitudinal section, showing the anthers; 2, pistil :—both 
enlarged. 
