found on the ground and on rocks. It has been distributed in 
gardens under the MS. name of 2. theeflorum. 
Descr. Stems two to six feet long, as thick as a goosequill ; 
branchlets, peduncles, calyx, ovary, petioles, and under surface 
of the leaf densely clothed with brown, appressed, circular, hya- 
line scales ; a few of them are also scattered over the outer sur- 
face of the tube of the corolla. Zeaves two or three inches long, 
spreading, very thick and coriaceous, deep green above, ellip- 
tical, lanceolate, acuminate; petioles short, very stout. Pedun- 
cles axillary, short, stout, curved, clothed at the base with broad, 
ciliated bracts. Calyz lobes large, broadly oblong, blunt. Co- 
rolla white, one and a half inch across, of a very thick texture, 
pure white or with a faint rosy tinge; the tube short, somewhat 
inflated ; lobes broad, expanded, concave. Stamens sixteen, large 
for the size of the flower. Style short, clavate, curved. 
Fig. 1. Under surface of portion of leaf. 2. Scale. 3. Flower. 4, Stamen. 
5. Flower, with corolla removed. 6. Transverse section of ovary. 7. Imperfect 
fruit :—all magnified. 
