and the Himalayas, at elevations of from 6—12,000 feet. Mr. 
William Lobb found it on hills about Mufflong, Assam, and 
introduced it to the nursery of Messrs. Veitch and Son at Exeter 
and Chelsea. We think that so ornamental a plant will soon 
find its way into every garden and every shrubbery. Neither of 
the two figures we have quoted does justice to the beauty of 
this plant. 
Dzscr. A small, rather compact shrvd, with red-brown terete 
woody branches. eaves, among the largest of the genus, two 
to four inches long, evergreen, exactly ovate or approaching to 
oblong, sessile, obtuse, minutely pellucido-punctate, penninerved, 
dark green above, pale and glaucous beneath, and dotted, even 
when not held between the eye and the light. Corymés large, 
terminal on the branches, bearing copious, large and rich, almost 
golden-yellow flowers ; the dranches of the panicle are di- or tri- 
chotomous, leafy, but the leaves gradually smaller and subbrac- 
teiform as they approach the flowers, all opposite. Calyz of five 
large, lax, obovate, concave sepals, united at their base, the 
somewhat membranous margin denticulate. Petals very large, 
subrotund, but more or less obliquely cuneate and ineequilateral, 
imbricated, concave, rather firm, the margin more or less entire 
or denticulate. Stamens very numerous, collected into five pha- 
langes or bundles, each set united at their base : filaments slender, 
yellow: anthers orange-yellow, small, subglobose. Ovary broad- 
ovate, tapering upwards, and terminating in five styles, which 
are recurved at the apex. Stigma obtuse, downy. 
Fig. 1. Calyx and pistil. 2. One of the five bundles of stamens :—magnified. 
