copious glands on both surfaces of the leaf, this hardly 
differs from typical R. lepidotum. 
R. lepidotum is a native of the loftier interior ranges of 
the Nepal and Sikkim Himalaya, at elevations of 8000 to 
16,000 feet. The specimen figured was raised from seed 
sent to the Royal Gardens from Sikkim by Mr. Gammie, 
which flowered in May of the present year. 
Descr. A stout or slender twiggy shrub, forming ex- 
tended clumps, one to four feet high, branching from a 
woody tortuous rootstock ; branches tufted, as thick as a 
crow’s quill; whole plant covered with resinous scales. 
Leaves pale glaucous green, one-half to one and a half inch 
long, emitting a resinous odour, obovate in this form, 
elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate in others, not coriaceous. 
Flowers few, terminal, but subtended by leafing shoots ; 
pedicels simple, one to two inches long. Calyx green, of 
five rounded oblong recurved obtuse or retuse sepals. 
Corolla maroon-purple in this variety, an inch in diameter, 
salver-shaped; tube very short, subglobose ; limb spreading, 
lobes orbicular, veined. Stamens usually eight, rarely ten ; 
filaments short, hairy at the base; anthers linear-oblong. 
Ovary ovoid, deeply five-lobed laterally; style very short, 
clavate, decurved ; stigma discoid, obscurely five-lobed. 
Capsule hardly exceeding the calyx.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Pedicel, calyx, aud pistil; 2 and 3, stamens :—all enlarged. 
