A branching subyiscidly furred shrub; bark generally 
more or less red. Leaves scattered on all sides, standing 
widishly apart, cordate, green, roughly furred, but little 
longer than broad, an inch and a half in length or upwards, 
wrinkled, prominently veined underneath, crenately toothed, 
obsoletely sinuated; sublobate before they are full grown; 
petiole several times shorter than the blade. Stipules double, 
short, ovate, bluntish, convex on the upper side, Peduncles 
axillary, solitary, one-flowered, rough-furred, longer than 
- the petiole, with a leaflet near their foot. Flowers: oblately 
campanulate, flesh-coloured, about an inch and one third in 
diameter, marked below with radiated crimson streaks. 
Outer calyx equal to the inner, 3-leaved, leaflets very broad, 
elliptically ovate, acuminated, shortly and roughly pu- 
bescent; inner one halfdcleft, subangularly turbinate at the 
jower part, at the upper spreadingly campanulate with broad- 
ly ovate sharp-pointed segments. Petals*roundly obcordate, 
lamina oblate with a wide shallow subrepand nearly obso- 
lete sinus at the top, lapping over each other at their sides, 
minutely ciliated below; unguis short, white. Stamineous 
tube about 3 shorter than the corolla, marked at the base of 
the petals, with 5 alternate crimson spots, smooth at the 
lower part, bearded by a few short pencils or stellated villi 
near the anthers: anthers black, reniform; pollen cinereous, 
clotted, grains spherical smooth. Styles 12? crimson; 
stigma a pale glandular slightly broader papilla. . 
The drawing was taken from a sample in the greenhouse 
of Messrs. Whitley and Co. at Fulham, where it flowers for 
a long time in succession during the summer months, 
