heads subtended by crowded shorter and very shaggy floral 
leaves, separated one from the other by bractelike leaflets. 
Calyx oblong, turbinately campanulate, pale green with a 
woolly-villous fur; segments ovate triangular upright con- 
cave on the inside and deep green. Petals of the corolla 
lilac-red, obovate, convolutely concave, three times shorter 
than the stamens, three times longer than the segments of 
the calyx or more, unguiculate (i. e. with a narrow claw or 
stand), eroded at the edge. Stamineous fascicles 5, of from 
5 to 9 stamens, lilac-red, with very short nearly obsolete 
stands: anthers yellow. All the pistils we examined were 
imperfect. 
The drawing was taken in May, at the nursery of 
Messrs. Colville, in the King’s Road, Chelsea. 
