which in Garden § Forest differs widely from that here repre- 
sented in the very lax inflorescence with very long pedicels, 
much larger flowers, and narrower petals. It was dis- 
covered in the Province of Yunnan, at an elevation of six 
thousand to seven thousand feet by the Abbé Delavay, 
who sent seeds in 1888 to Messrs. Vilmorin of Paris. 
Plants of var. purpurascens were first received by the 
Royal Gardens, Kew, from the Jardin des Plantes, Paris, 
but the figure here given was taken from a specimen 
purchased in 1897 from Mr. J. Smith, of Newry, which 
flowered June, 1899. 
Descr.—Var. purpurascens. A shrub six to seven feet 
high; branches covered with light brown bark. Leaves 
two to three and a half inches long, ovate or oblong, acute 
or acuminate, finely serrate, glabrous, scaberulous, or 
minutely stellately lepidote above, sparsely lepidote be- 
neath, base rounded, sub-cordate or cuneate, nerves four 
to five pairs; petiole one-eighth to one-sixth inch long. 
Inflorescence of terminal rounded panicles terminating the 
lateral branchlets, peduncles and pedicels and calyces dark 
red-brown, sparsely lepidote. Flowers three-fourths to 
one inch in diameter. Calyz-lobes linear or oblong- 
lanceolate. Petals broadly ovate-oblong, dorsally 
thickened, stellately pubescent and red-purple, margins 
very broad, white, membranous. Filaments ten, linear, _ 
five opposite the petals shorter, simple, with the anthers 
on the inner face, five longer opposite the sepals forked, 
with the anther in the sinus. Styles three, with linear, 
thickened stigmatose tips.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, calyx and styles; 2, stellate scale; 3, petal, dorsal view; 4, longer 
and 5, shorter stamens :—Al/ enlarged. 
