as shortly hairy within, but it is glabrous in the Kew 

 plant. 



B. rubiginosum is a native of Tsangshan Mfc., above 

 Tali, in the province of Yunnan, at an elevation of 6000 to 

 7000 ft. The plant from which the figure is taken was 

 obtained by the Eoyal Gardens, Kew, in 1894, from 

 Messrs. Veitch. It flowers in April and May, and is quite 

 hardy. 



Bescr. — A rigid shrub, three feet high, with stout 

 branches and brown branchlets, which, with the leaves 

 beneath, petioles, pedicels, calyx and ovary, are densely 

 clothed with red-brown circular lepidote scales. Leaves 

 two to three inches long, ovate- or oblong-lanceolate, 

 acute or acuminate, narrowed into a short petiole, dull 

 green, opaque above, with a few lepidote scales, yellowish 

 beneath; leaf-bud scales small, orbicular. Flowers few, 

 corymbose, shortly pedicelled. Calyx very small, obtusely 

 4-lobed. Corolla one and a half inches broad, bright rose- 

 red, tube broadly funnel-shaped, rather longer than the 

 orbicular, undulate, spreading lobes, the two upper of 

 which are spotted with red. Stamens 10, filaments shorter 

 than the corolla, minutely pubescent towards the base ; 

 anthers large, red-purple. Ovary oblong, 5-lobed ; style 

 long, glabrous, stigma pale. 



Fig. 1, Upper, and 2, undersurface of leaf; 3, calyx and ovary; 4, lepidote 

 scale; 5 and 6, stamens :— All enlarged. 



