Stem woody, round, upright, as thick as or thicker than 
a common sized pen, the young part green, from three to 
six feet high, bending as it lengthens; branches wandlike, 
round, green, very slightly roughened. Leaves scattered, 
distant, ovately acuminate, dark green, roughishly pu- 
bescent on both sides, serrate, longer ones about an inch 
-and half long, lower. ones sometimes more or less three- 
lobed: petioles about an inch long, villous, bent near the 
blade, thickened at the knee. Peduncles axillary, one- 
flowered, solitary, as long or rather longer than the leaves, 
thinly and hardishly pubescent, upright, slightly spreading, 
straight, round, 2 inches long or more, with a joint aboye 
the middle, yet much below the flower, and from thence 
upwards thickened. Outer calyx 9-leafletted, radiately 
spreading, equal to the inner one, dark green, roughish, 
leaflets very narrow, linearly subulate: inner one paler, 
membranous, cleft to below the middle, campanulate, yil- 
ously edged, segments lanceolate, pointed, 3-nerved. Co- 
rolla crimson, flatly expanded, about 13 inch over, longer 
than the calyx; petals oblong, cuneate, rounded or subre- 
tuse, connate at the base into a tube which encloses the 
germen. Germen covered, ovate, pale green, villous. 
Stamineous tube inclined, of the colour of the corolla, shortly 
branched and antherbearing nearly from the very base: 
anthers round, orange-coloured. Styles 5, filiform, equal to 
the petals, bending back, that their stigmas may be placed 
in contact with the anthers: stigmas capitate. 
The drawing was made at the nursery of Messrs. Whit- 
ley, Brames, and Milne, King’s Road, Fulham, 
