the size of the flowers. It produced its flowers at the end of 
March, 1857, with Messrs. Veitch, and seems simply to require 
greenhouse-treatment. 
Duscr. A large shrub or small ¢ree in its native regions, with 
terete, very woody éranches, often tawny or reddish from the 
presence of copious tomentum of that colour, and which is more 
or less deciduous. Leaves tolerably copious, spreading or sub- 
erect, from three-quarters of an inch to almost three inches (in 
some rare instances) long, shortly petioled, oblong-elliptical, 
acute, glabrous and dark green above, beneath glaucous, and 
often subtomentose. Flowers on terminal, scaly peduncles, 
clothed with tawny tomentum, and bracteated with small, ap- 
pressed, ovate, acute scales, racemose, or rather corymbose. 
Calyz short, cup-shaped, downy at the base, five- to seven-lobed ; 
lobes erect, ovate, acute. Corolla of from five to seven oblong- 
spathulate, erecto-patulous, pale sulphur-yellow petals. Stamens 
ten, or rarely twelve, a good deal longer than the petals, curved 
upwards. /i/aments subulate, hairy below. Anthers ovate, two- 
celled, opening at the apex by two pores. Ovary depresso- 
globose, five- to seven-lobed, five- to seven-celled. Style long, 
curved upwards. Stigma dilated, with a small five-lobed disc. 
Fig. 1. Stamen. 2. Pistil. 3. Section of ovary :—magnified. 
