rolled together, as is usually the case, but spread open. 

 The blossoms are at first pale -greenish rose colour, 

 gradually changing to deep red, so that there are many 

 different hues upon the plant at the same time. It pro- 

 pagates very readily by cuttings, and will soon become a 

 common plant. It flowers continually during all the summer 

 months. 



Stem branched, shrubby ; branches weak, round, ash- 

 colour, covered with very minute down. Leaves ovate, 

 obtuse, on long stalks, covered on both sides with 

 minute pubescence, paler beneath ; sometimes opposite, 

 sometimes nearly opposite, often quite alternate ; stipulce 

 very minute. Flowers small, axillary, solitary, with the 

 peduncles the length of the petioles, and capillary. Tube 

 of the cal2/.v funnel-shaped, rather longer than the limb, 

 which is divided into four sharp-pointed pieces. Petals 

 oblong, flat, very much spreading, wavy, obtuse. Sta??ie?is 

 almost, but not quite, enclosed in the calyx. Stigma a long 

 way protruded, capitate, undivided. 



