at an altitude of 8,500 ft. above sea-level. The material 
on which the present figure and description have been based 
was supplied by Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons, in whose 
nursery at Coombe Wood it forms a handsome shrub which 
thrives excellently in the good loam characteristic of the 
locality. Judging from its behaviour there, D. ventricosa 
promises to be a satisfactory garden plant; it is quite 
hardy, its cultivation presents no difficulties, and it is 
easily propagated by cuttings. 
Descriprion.—Shrub, T-18 ft. in height, young flower- 
ing shoots at first pubescent, soon glabrous; internodes 
about 2 in. long. Leaves opposite, lanceolate or ovate- 
lanceolate, caudate-acuminate, base rounded or rarely 
slightly cuneate, 2-6 in. long, 13-23 in. wide, membranous 
or at length subcoriaceous, margin distantly gland-toothed, 
ciliolate, sparingly strigose above, sparsely pubescent on the 
nerves beneath; lateral nerves 6-7 on each side hardly 
visible above; petioles slender, 4-5 lin. long, glandular 
hairy. Peduneles axillary, slender, short, 1-more-flowered ; 
pedicels 5-8 lin. long, sparingly glandular pubescent ; 
bracts filiform, 1 lin. long or less, hairy; bracteoles 6 ; 
2 very small below the middle of each pedicel, 4 large near 
the base of the ovary, of these the outer pair smaller ovate, 
the inner pair auriculate up to 8 lin. long. Calyx-lobes 
linear-lanceolate, very acute, 3-4 lin. long, ciliolate. Corolla 
tubular, 2-lpped, about 1} in. long, outside red, within 
whitish orange; tube wide ventricose to the base, slightly 
gibbous below in front; lobes 5, rounded, slightly recurved. 
Stamens 4, didynamous, the upper pair somewhat exserted ; 
filaments filiform, glabrous. Ovary 4-celled, glandular ; 
style filiform, entire, glabrous. rwt crowned by the per- 
sistent calyx-lobes, and hidden by the adpressed reticulate 
accrescent bracteoles, 3 in. wide, including the bracteoles. 
Fig. 1, upper pair of bracteoles, calyx and pistil, seen from behind; 
2, bracteoles and calyx, front view; 3, base of corolla tube, laid open, showing 
the stamens; 4 and 5, anthers :—all enlarged. 
