has the strong resinously aromatic odour that characterizes 

 the alpine Himalayan species. 



Dbscb. A shrub eight to ten feet high, with nearly white 

 spongy bark on the branches ; branchlets f urf uraceously- 

 pubescent. Leaves two to three inches long, very coria- 

 ceous, elliptic-oblong or -lanceolate, acute at both ends, 

 opaque above, clothed beneath with pale brownish lepidote 

 scales ; petiole one-eighth to one-half of an inch long. 

 Flowers white, in dense terminal corymbs, shortly pedi- 

 celled, surrounded with short broad coriaceous lepidote 

 apiculate ciliate scales ; floral scales linear, obtuse, villously 

 ciliate. Sepals five, subequal, oblong, obtuse, membranous, 

 ciliate woolly and lepidote. Corolla nearly an inch long, 

 funnel-shaped, pubescent within; lobes shorter than the 

 tube, broadly oblong, tips rounded. Stamens ten, in- 

 cluded within the tube of the corolla ; filaments slender, 

 hairy; anthers small. Ovary short, rounded, densely 

 lepidote ; style very stout with five large stigmatic lobes. 

 Capsule a quarter of an inch long, shortly ovoid, obtuse, 

 lepidote, almost twice as long as the persistent membranous 

 sepals.—/. D. H. 



Fig. ] , Portion of under-surface of leaf ; 2, lepidote scale from do. ; 3, calyx and 

 bract; 4, corolla laid open; 5, stamen ; 6, ovary : — all but Jig. 1 enlarged. 



