flowers. Like most of the forms included in the same group, 
it promises to be quite hardy. It thrives in a moist but not 
too heavy soil free from calcareous matter. It seems likely 
to produce good seed under cultivation, but failing its pro- 
pagation in this manner may be increased by cuttings. 
Descriprion.— Shrub, closely branched ; flowering twigs 
rather slender and naked except for a few glands. Leaves 
persistent, scattered, petioled, lanceolate, including the 
petiole 13-3 in. long, acuminate, with a subglobose apical 
gland, rounded at the base, at first closely glandular-scaly 
on both sides but soon becoming naked above, pale beneath 
between the close-set scales which at first are yellow but 
soon become almost black; nerves rather faint. Corymbs 
umbellate, terminal, usually 5-7-flowered ; pedicels rather 
slender, }-$ in. long, curved, closely scaly. Calyx very 
short, the teeth blunt. Corolla wide campanulate, about 
2 in, across, greenish yellow, puberulous within and dotted 
with green behind, sparingly scaly outside; the tube short, 
the lobes broad and rounded. Stamens 10, alternately 
longer and shorter, the longer somewhat exserted; fila- 
ments filiform, densely clothed except above and at the 
very base with short broad hollow 1-celled hairs. Ovary 
closely scaly, 5-celled ; style glabrous, rather longer than 
the stamens, Capsule not seen ripe. 
Fig. 1, terminal portion of a leaf, showing the scaly under surface and the 
apical gland ; 2, se 
scales from under surface of leaf; 3, ca’yx and pistil; 4 and 5, 
Stawens; 6, portion of the pilose section of a filament :—uall enlarged. 
