and stricta of Roxb. in fl. ind. 1. 388) formerly distinguished 
as incarnata by Roxburgh, and still continued under that 
name by Sir J. Smith in Rees’s Cyclopedia. 
The fur on the young branches, peduncles, calyx, flower, 
bractes, and under side of the leaves, is too fine and in- 
conspicuous to be satisfactorily expressed in our engraving, 
though plain enough, upon attentive observation, on the 
plant itself, of which it forms a distinguishing feature. 
“ An erect, strong, branchy shrub, about 4 feet high, 
“with scabrous, brown bark. The younger branches pu- 
* bescent, slightly compressed towards the insertion of the 
“leaves, ash-coloured. Leaves subdecussate, spreading, 
“leathery and firm, 5-6 inches long, about 2 broad, taper- 
“ ing towards the base, and there rounded or slightly emar- 
“ ginate, dark green, bullate, smooth and shining aboye, 
** pale and pubescent underneath, especially along the mid- 
“rib and numerous nerves: petioles thick and woody, 
“ scarcely more than a line long: stipules broad-ovate, pu- 
* bescent, ending in a long subulate adpressed point, con- 
_ ™ nected and stemclasping by means of a narrow membrane, 
“ continuing within the base of the petioles, and concealing 
** a series of small rust-coloured cilia. Corymbs round, as ° 
“large as the leaves, mostly elevated on a peduncle, with 
“ trichotomous brachiate spreading pubescent reddish pe- 
“ duncles, the lower ones an inch long; the whole forming 
“an ample terminal inflorescence of innumerable beautiful, 
“pale rose-coloured, ternate, sessile flowers: bractes op- 
“ posite lanceolate, connected by a ciliated margin. Calyx 
“very small, oblong with 4 reddish lanceolate ciliated 
“teeth, supported by 2 adpressed bractes at the bottom, 
* within which there is a series of fleshy, subulate, wither- 
‘ing and sphacelated cilia, as in the Asclepiadece and Apo- 
“ eynew. Corolla pubescent; tube slender a little more than 
“an inch long; segments smooth spreading, at last re- 
© flexed, equalling 3 of the tube in length. Filaments re- 
“ flexed: anthers linear-sagittate. Stigma reddish.” Wal- 
Lich. 
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