An upright leafy shrub, growing to the height of 10 or 12 
Aect, hirsutely and viscidly furred, green, axillarily branched. 
Leaves soft, alternate, from an inch and a half to three 
inches long, roughly furred, veined and slightly wrinkled, 
about as broad as long, sharply crenated, cordate, 5-7- 
lobed, lobes obtuse shallowly sinuated, the middle one ovate: 
and longer: petiole 3 times shorter than the blade or more- 
Stipules 2, ovately acuminated, short, entire, spread hor!- 
zontally. Peduncles axillary, generally double, one-flowered, 
outspread, straight, filiform, roughly furred, rather shorter 
than the leaf, 2 or 3 times longer than the petiole, generally 
furnished with a leaflet or bracte at the base. Flowers of 
purplish pink, less than an inch in diameter, rotately cam- 
panulate. Outer calyx three-leaved, as short again as the 
inner one, leaflets linearly lanceolate, flat: inner one half5- 
cleft hirsute, segments ovately acuminated. Petals not 
much longer than the calyx, touching each other by thei 
sides without lapping over; lamina or broad part oblately 
round, veined, subcrenately eroded at the upper margin, 0 
a deeper red at the base; wnguis short, whitish, slightly 
villous, ciliate. Column of stamens about 4 shorter than the 
corolla, whitish, nearly naked, haying only a few pencilled 
or stellated hairs, marked with 5 crimson stains betwee? — 
the petals at the base, bearing the anthers in a tuft at the 
upper part: anthers reniform, blackish purple, shagreened; 
pollen of smooth ash-coloured globular grains, clotted. 
Styles 12? rosy-crimson, filiform, protruded beyond the 
stamens; stigma a pale terminal glandular papilla but little 
wider than the style. 
The drawing was taken at the nursery of Messrs. Whit- 
ley, Brames, and Milne, Fulham. 
