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branches and branchlets 4-angular, light green and tinged with 

 purple, hispidulous-puberulent ; bracts leaf-like, shortly petiolate, 

 shorter than the branches, the superior ones gradually smaller 

 and narrower. Flowers 3cm. across, pale-rosy, pedicellate; 

 pedicel shorter than the flower, very slightly enlarged above, very 

 scarcely puberulent, about 3J-4J- mm. long ; bracteoles very 

 minute, the uppermost ones larger, opposite at the top of the 

 ultimate pedicels, puberulent and ciliolated. Calyx cam- 



panulate with the patent 6 sometimes 5 or 4 lobes, glabrous, 

 about 8 mm. long, about 10-11 mm. across, londitudinally ob- 

 scurely 12— (or 10— 8)— costate, pale-greenish and tinged with 

 light purple, thickish and herbaceous ; tube invertedly ovato- 

 conical ; lobes deltoid, acute, entire, shorter than the tube. 

 Petals 6, sometimes 5 or 4, spreading often more or less 

 reflexed, much exserted, inserted on the throat of the calyx, 

 long-unguiculate ; unguis filiform, about as long as the lamina; 

 lamina orbiculato-reniform, apertly cordate at the base, very 

 crispate towards and eroso-crenate on the margin, membrana- 

 ceous. Stamens numerous, much exserted, inserted at the base 

 of the calyx-tube, dimorphic ; outer 6 longer and opposite to 

 the calyx-lobes, curved inwards, scarcely shorter than the 

 petals; filaments filiform, purplish, but yellowish above; anther 

 dorsifixed, oval, truncato-rounded at the apex, bifid at the 

 base, anther-cells arcuate and broad-linear, yellowish-purplish, 

 1J mm. long, connective broad, yellow ; inner ones shorter and 

 many, shorter than the unguis of petals ; filaments angustately 

 filiform, pale-yellowish ; anther dorsifixed, rounded, retuso- 

 truncate or truncate at the apex, cordate at the base, entirely 

 yellow, with broad-linear arcuate anther-cells, about lj mm. 

 long. Style erect, angustately terete and stout filiform, as long 

 as the outer and larger stamens, purplish, but greenish towards 

 the stigma, about ljcm. long; stigma subdilated and truncate, 

 viridescent ; ovary ellipsoid, smooth, glabrous, pale-greenish, 

 6-7-celled, about 2mm. long; ovules numerous, 2-rowed in 

 ■each cell. Capsule ellipsoid, exserted, accompanied by the 

 persistent calyx, glabrous, 5-6-celled, 8-11 mm. long. Seeds 

 deltoid, winged ; wing oblong, obtuse, about 5-6 mm. long. 



