veins arched, few, distant ; stipules triangular-subulate, ap- 
pressed, persistent. Panicle terminal, erect, laxly many- 
flowered, trichotomously branched, the lower branches spring- 
ing from the axils of subsessile ovate acuminate leaves; 
bracts linear- oblong, green, rather appressed to the branches ; 
bracteoles subulate. Flowers pedicelled, half to three-quarter 
inch long, rose-coloured. Calyx-tube nearly globose ; limb 
of five linear-obovate acute or obtuse segments. Corolla-tube 
slender, twice or thrice as long as the calyx-lobes, pubescent ; 
Limb one-third of an inch diam., lobes rounded ; mouth with 
an obscurely thickened ring ; throat glabrous. Stamens small, 
inserted in the middle of the tube, with short filaments and 
linear-oblong included anthers. Style very short, stigmatic- 
lobes linear. — J.D.H. 
Fig. 1, Flower with calyx lobes removed and corolla laid open; 2, flower with 
corolla removed : — both enlarged . 
