elliptic, sharp-pointed, quite smooth at the upper side, 
slightly villous about the veins at the under, finely sub- 
serrulate, about an inch and a half long: petioles very 
short, somewhat villous. Racemes several on all the end- 
branches, alternate, simple, spreading, twice shorter than 
the leaves, one-ranked, manyflowered: pedicles somewhat 
villous, 3-4 lines long: bractes oblong, sharp-pointed, very 
smooth, generally of a pinkish hue; one upon the common 
peduncle at the foot of each pedicle, 2-3 lines long, ovate, 
concave; two opposite ones upon each pedicle a little above 
the base, spreading; but little shorter than the others. 
Calyx 5-cleft, quite smooth, of a dullish red colour, a line 
and a half long: segments ovate, broad, bluntish. ~Co- 
rolla white, with a reddish tinge on the outside, sub- 
cylindrical, faintly ventricose, 4 times the length of the 
calyx, 5-cleft at the mouth: segments ovate, bluntish. 
Filaments ten, slightly affixed to the edge of the receptacles, 
subulate, flat, upright, subvillous, but little longer than the 
calyx: anthers lanceolately subulate, upright, bicornous, 
put little shorter than the corolla, deep yellow. Germen 
depressed: style filiform, scarcely longer than the corolla: 
stigma obtuse. — 
