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often thinly beset with spines at the under side. Peduncles 
one-flowered, solitary, short. Outer calyx of about eleven 
(more or less) linear pointed stiffish hispid spreading leaf- 
lets: inner one likewise beset with hispid whitish hairs, the 
length of the outer, rather spreading, 5-cleft to about two 
thirds of its depth; segments ovate and pointed. Corolla 
large and much longer than the calyx: petals widened from 
a narrow unguis into a very broad rounded obtuse obsoletely 
crenated outspread primrose-coloured lamina with a dark 
blood-red base. Stamens and stigma black red, with pollen 
of a colour between vermilion and crimson: stigma five- 
cleft, capitate, flat, slightly furred. Germen shaggily fur- 
red, Capsule ovate, five-celled, many-seeded. 
