less) across, firm, nerved, the nerves sunk at the upper 
side, prominent at the under, lobes standing rather widely 
asunder, rounded at the points, the middle the longest and » 
cuneately oblong, sometimes shortly acuminated, sometimes 
retuse with a small middle point, pubescence subcompound: 
petioles shorter than the blade, patent, stiff, filiform: sti- 
pules very small, subulate, sphacelate, caducous. -Peduncles 
axillary in the upper part of the branches, solitary, filiform, 
upright, straight, about 3 inches long, jointed a little be- 
low the calyx and bent forwards. Calyx double: outer one 
green, 8-9-leaved, but little shorter than the inner, cam- 
panulate, leaflets narrow, linear, sharp-pointed rough- 
furred, keeled: imner about halfway-fivecleft, little more 
than the third of an inch deep, paler, beset with pencilled 
or stellate hairs, segments lanceolate with an exteriorly 
prominent midrib. Corolla rose-coloured, nodding, obconi- 
cally campanulate, nearly two inches deep, slanted at the 
orifice, somewhat unequal, villous and nerved on the outside, 
segments obovately or cuneately oblong, slantingly round at 
the top, somewhat retuse with a small point, lowermost one 
the largest of all. Stamineous tube pale rose-colour, about 
= shorter than the corolla, interruptedly staminiferous up- 
wards, filaments irregularly placed and rather wide apart, 
often in pairs, short: anthers roundish, pollen consisting of 
small flesh-coloured globules. Styles fine, longer than the 
stamineous tube, rose-coloured: stigmas capitate hairy 
pale-rose-colour. 
The drawing was taken at the nursery of Messrs. Whit- 
ley, Brames, and Milne, King’s Road, Fulham. 
