tion being at that time inaccessible in the vaults of the 
India House. In Sikkim it inhabits the same elevation as 
in Bhotan, and becomes a small tree twenty feet high. 
The specimen here figured is from a plant raised in the 
Royal Botanic Gardens of Edinburgh, where it has flowered 
under Mr. Sadler’s care, and was communicated by Dr. 
Balfour in June of the present year. The colour of the 
flower is much brighter in the native Sikkim specimens than 
in that here represented. 
Desor. A large shrub or small tree, with deciduous 
leaves that are crowded towards the ends of the branches, 
and whorls of drooping flowers. Branches slender, staff, 
with red-brown bark, young ones bright red, as are the 
petioles, midribs, and margins of the leaves. Leaves two to 
three inches long, petioled, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 
serrulate, base acute, pubescent beneath when young; 
petiole slender, hairy. lowers crowded in an umbellate 
manner towards the tips of the branches and bases of the 
young shoots, pendulous, pedicels hairy, one and a half 
inches long, rarely two-flowered. Calyx-lobes small, subulate- 
lanceolate, appressed. Corolla half an inch long, broadly 
campanulate, obscurely five-angled, five-lobed ; lobes short, 
triangular, red, scarcely spreading; limb dull yellowish red, 
streaked with brighter red. Stamens included, pubescent 
all over, filaments short; anther-horns recurved. Ovary 
pubescent. Capsule decurved on the pedicel, almost glo- 
bose, with five valves that are thickened at the edges. 
Seeds with five membranous wrinkled toothed wings.— 
TU 
Fig. 1, stamens; 2, calyx and ovary ; 3, vertical section of ovary; 4, peduncle 
and capsule ; 5, seed; 6, longitudinal section of ditto :—all but Jig. 4 enlarged. 
