Cultivated by Miller in 1731. The seed that produced 
the plant from which the drawing was made, was sent from 
India by Lady Gwyllim to Messrs. Whitley, Brames, and 
Milne, of the Fulham nursery. 
A branching arborescent shrub. Leaves decrescent up- 
wards, roundly cordate, acuminate, more or less crenated, 
obsoletely pubescent at the upper side and green, on the 
under tomentose whitish and varicosely nerved, the prin- 
cipal nerve having a longitudinal linear glandularly edged 
incision at its base: petioles villous shorter than the blade: 
stipules large, sometimes nearly ovate sometimes para- 
bolical round pointed, villous, upright, caducous.  Pe- 
duncles on the upper parts of the branches, axillary, 
solitary, thick, scarcely longer than the interior calyx, 
round, curved, with a short close plush-like pubescence. 
External calyx enveloping closely the base of the internal 
one, several times shorter than that, 9-10-parted, leaflets 
ovately acuminate, covered with precisely the same kind 
of pubescence as the peduncle and of the same colour. 
Internal calyx about 3 of an inch deep, campanulate, fiye- 
cleft to below the middle, segments oblong, lanceolate, 
villous, generally 3-nerved, obtusely pointed. Corolla 
campanulately rotate about 4 inches across, nervedly 
streaked, deep yellow, with a large dark crimson Spot on 
the inside at the bottom, externally roughishly villous: 
petals shortly connected at their bases, spatulately round, 
unguis cuneately narrowed, shorter than the obliquely 
rounded unequal-sided lamina. Stamineous tube yellow, 
nearly twice shorter than the corolla, entire or naked nearly 
to the middle, then beset by or divided into short and some- 
times branching filaments: anthers reniform, pale. Stig- 
mas 5, oblong, cylindrical, deep crimson, upright, spread- 
ing, softly muricated. 
