spotting of red on the uppermost lobe. The plant from 
which the figure was made flowered in May in a green- 
house, and it is not hardy at Kew. 
Deser.—A tortuously branched, glabrescent shrub, 
reaching a height of eight feet. Leaves clustered at the 
tips of the branches, distinctly stalked, thick, leathery, 
when young clothed, especially on the undersurface, with 
pale brown felt, obovate-lanceolate, two to three inches 
long, rounded at the tip, narrowed downwards. Coryibs 
four- to six-flowered; bracts leathery, glutinous, lanceo- 
late, acute, outer ones gradually smaller; pedicels clothed 
with a rusty pubescence, shorter than the leaves. Flowers 
about three inches in diameter. Calyx small; teeth 
‘triangular, acute. Corolla five-lobed; lobes meahded, 
notched. Stamens usually ten, unequal, the longer ones 
nearly equalling the corolla; filaments slightly hairy 
below the middle; anthers yellow. Ovary clothed with 
stellate hairs; style slightly glandular in the lower part, 
a little longer than the stamens. Capsule unkuown.— 
W. Bortine Hemstey. 
Fig. 1, portion of leaf, under surface; 2, hairs from the ovary : 3, calyx and 
pistil; 4 ‘and 5, stamens :—all enlarged. 
