Mr. KE. E. Galpin, who collected it in wooded ravines near 
Barberstown, at an elevation of 3500 to 4000 feet. To Mr. 
Galpin the Royal Gardens are also indebted for seeds sent 
in 1890, a plant raised from which has now attained a height 
of nine feet in the Temperate House, where Mr. Watson 
thinks it looks as if it would grow into a good sized tree. 
Tt flowered for the first time in July, 1894. 
Deser.—A shrub or small tree, bark brown; young 
branches green, with red-purple spots, at first stellately 
pubescent. Leaves three to four inches long, shortly 
petioled, ovate, subacute, or ovate-lanceolate and caudately 
acuminate, dark green above, paler beneath, young bronzy 
brown, stellately pubescent. Flowers an inch and a halt 
in diameter, crowded in short, axillary and terminal sub- 
sessile racemes; rachis and pedicels short, and calyces 
stellately pubescent. Calye a quarter of an inch long, 
green, splitting irregularly into two or three triangular 
deciduous lobes. Petals five, one half to two-thirds of an 
inch long, strap-shaped, undulate, white, rose-colrd. at the 
base. Stamens very small; filaments subglobose, shorter 
than the two-celled anthers, which dehisce laterally, con- 
nective produced into an incurved horn. Ovary 2-celled, 
adnate to the calyx-tube; styles subulate. Capsule sub- 
globose.—J. D. H. 
fod 1, Bud; 2, stellate hairs; 3, tube of calyx and stamens; 4 and 5, 
stamens ; 6, vertical section of ovary :—All enlarged. 
