Description:—Leaf sometimes up to 1 m. long and 45 cm. broad, hairy beneath, sometimes shaggy on the upper surface, with crenate margins. Peduncles up to 15 cm. long, terete, pilose, bearing many flowers arranged more or less in a cymose manner. Calyx divided almost to the base; lobes 5 mm. long, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, subacute, ciliate. Corolla-tube 2·2 cm. long, pubescent in bud, becoming more or less glabrous with age, gradually widening from the base upwards; lobes 4 mm. long, 4 mm. broad, more or less transversely oblong, broadly rounded at the apex. Style densely pilose below.
Plate 27.—Fig. 1, inflorescence; Fig. 2, plant reduced
F.P.S.A., 1921.
28.