prove a most attractive ornament to the shrubbery. As a 

 species it is more nearly allied to the Sikkim K Himalaicus, 

 both in the foliage and colour of the flowers, than to the 

 original R quinqueflorus of China, with which, however, it 

 agrees in its erect capsule ; it differs from both in the globose 

 corolla with a very contracted mouth, and in the five large 

 sac-like protuberances at its base. 



Descr. A slender shrub ; branches whorled, covered with 

 brown bark, stiff, spreading. Leaves crowded at the ends of the 

 branchlets, one and a half to two inches long, shortly pe- 

 tioled, elliptic ovate or obovate, acute, serrulate, deciduous. 

 Bracts numerous, whorled, obovate-oblong, yellow-green, one 

 quarter to half an inch long. Flowers numerous, drooping ; 

 pedicels two-thirds of an inch long, quite glabrous. Calyx 

 of five small ovate subulate lobes. Corolla one-third of an 

 inch m diameter, pure white, globose, intruded at the base, 

 where there are five deep saccate projections ; mouth much 

 contracted ; lobes small, broad, revolute. Stamens included ; 

 stigma exserted. Capsules erect, nearly half an inch lonff, 

 narrow.—/. B. H. 



Fig. 1, Flower ; 2, calyx and pistil ; 3, stamen :— all magnified. 



