Gardens, Kew, from seeds sent by Dr, Watt in 1882, one 
of which flowered for the first time in the Himalayan 
wing of the Temperate House in June, 1899, a flowering 
branch of which is here figured. ‘The leaves attain a 
length of six inches in native specimens. 
Descr.—A robust shrub. Branches very stout, glabrous, 
covered with ‘brown bark. eaves crowded towards the 
ends of the branches, very shortly petioled, spreading 
and recurved, two to three inches long, oblong or ovate- 
oblong, convex, above bullate, dark shining green, with 
impressed reticulate nervules, margins recurved, beneath 
clothed with appressed fulvous tomentum; petiole very 
stout. Flowers very many, crowded in a globose, sessile 
head, five inches in diameter, bright deep scarlet ; pedicels 
very short, glandular-pubescent. Calyx short, broad, 
cupular, five-lobed, lobes rounded. Corolla campanulate, 
bright scarlet, without spots, limb an inch and a half in 
diameter, five-lobed; lobes short, rounded, spreading, 
rather deeply bilobulate. Stamens ten, declinate, filaments 
slender, quite glabrous; anthers small, dark brown. 
Ovary strigose, ten-celled ; style slender, glabrous, stigma 
annulate, minutely ten-lobed.—J.D.H. 
Fig. 1, calyx and pistil; 2 and 3, stamens; 4, transverse section of ovary + _ 
—Ali enlarged. : 
