lanceolate, entire, three-nerved, hispid with closely ap- 
pressed, whitish hairs, paler, and the nerves prominent 
beneath. Flowers from the extremities of the stems and 
branches, three or more together, having several small, 
green, foliaceous, ciliated bracteew at the base. Peduncles 
very short. Calyx urceolate, the tube clothed with many 
long bristles, which are stellated at the top, and, besides, 
are more or less branched: Segments of the calyx four, 
ovato-lanceolate, never reflexed, strongly ciliated at the 
margin. Petals four, obovate, rather large, finely ciliated 
at the margin, obtuse, rose-coloured, the claw yellow. 
Stamens ten, five alternate ones smaller, and these have 
the anthers yellow; the others are purple on the upper 
side ; both have two yellow, ovate glands or appendages at 
the base. Pistil : Germen oval, with a tuft oF we at the 
top, four-celled, each cell containing many ovules, attached 
o a fleshy receptacle: Style about as long as the stamens, 
filiform : Stigma obtuse. — ‘ [: el 
_ Seeds of this were sent along with those of Cumrogastra 
lanceolata to the Glasgow Botanic Garden from Trinidad, 
by Mr. Locxuarrt, and it flowers at the same season of the 
year. It grows in Savannahs; and if, as I suspect, and as 
SPRENGEL seems to be of opinion too, the R. capituta of 
Houmesotpr and Kunru be the same, it is a native also of 
Martinique. Rortséxx givesit as an inhabitant of Surinam. 
The calyx presents a highly curious appearance when 
magnified, from the nature of the hairs. 
ie 
Fig. 1. Small Cluster of Flowers with their Bractez, the Petals and Stamen 
being removed from the central Flower. 2. Petal. 3. The two kinds of 
Stamens. 4. Pistil. 5. Section of the Germen. 6. Hair from the Calyx. 
—All more or less magnified. Hue 
