in no respect from Dr. Hooker’s plate, except.in the paler 
anthers, greener petioles, and in wanting the rose-coloured hue 
and spots on the calyx. 
Descr. A shrub, four to eight feet high, branching from the 
base. Zeaves spreading, six to twelve inches long, hnear-oblong, . 
acute or acuminate, subcordate at the base, of a fine bright- 
green edged with pale-yellow, coriaceous and firm. lowers 
four to six, in terminal corymbose racemes, long-peduncled, 
very large, sometimes seven inches across. Ca/ya discoid, coria- 
ceous, obscurely lobed. Corol/a campanulate, with a short tube 
and open limb, five-lobed; /odes bifid. Stamens about sixteen, 
with glabrous filaments and small anthers. Ovary glandular, 
about twelve-celled. Capsule short, blunt, woody. 
Fig. 1. Stamen. 2. Calyx and pistil. 3. Transverse section of ovary :— 
all magnified. 
