At the Royal Gardens the great rootstock is grown in a 
basket, from which the branches hang and flower in the 3 
month of May. The rootstock was sent from Darjeeling 
by Mr. Gammie. 
Descr. Rootstock tuberous, one to two feet long, lobed, — 
oblong or deformed, rooting into moss, &c. Branches 
pendulous, two to four feet long, slender, branched, and as 
well as the pedicels clothed with spreading gland-tipped 
stiff hairs. Leaves subbifarious, one-half to two-thirds of 
an inch long, subsessile, ovate lanceolate or oblong-ovate, — 
acute, serrate towards the tip, coriaceous, evergreen, deep | 
green, beneath paler; base rounded or acute; margins sub- 
recurved. lowers axillary, solitary; pedicels shorter than 
the leaves; bracts two, basal, small, oblong, pink. Calya- 
tube shortly obovoid, five-winged, sparsely setose, especially 
along the wings; teeth shorter than the tube, ovate, sub- 
acute, setose or glabrous, enlarged in fruit. Corolla one to 
one and a quarter of an inch long, tubular, rather inflated, 
five-angled, pubescent, bright red, obscurely barred with — 
darker red ; teeth small, ovate, recurved. Stamensincluded, — 
filaments very short, free, broad, incurved ; anthers nearly — 
as long as the corolla, very slender, produced into a more 
slender tube as long as the cells, each opening by a terminal 
slit; connective not spurred behind. Style straight, slender, 
included, stigma capitellate. Berry one-fourth of an inch 
in diameter, broadly obovoid, five-winged.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Rootstock, reduced ; 2, portion of stem and leaf; 3, calyx and style 
' 4and 5, stamen; 6, transverse section of ovary :—all enlurged. - 
