Paris. From these plants were raised and distributed, 
one of which, received in 1892 at the Royal Gardens, Kew, 
from the late Prof. Max Cornu, flowered in the Himalayan — 
division of the Temperate House in May, 1900, being then 
three feet high. - 
Deser.—A nearly glabrous shrub, or small tree, with 
robust branches. Leaves coriaceous, three to four inches ~ 
long, elliptic or obovate-lanceolate, acute at both ends, 
pale green and smooth above, beneath glaucous, and 
covered with scattered, minute, broad, lepidote scales ; 
petioles short, stout, and often the leaf-base also, ciliate, 
with long hairs. Flowers three to ten, in a terminal, very 
shortly peduncled corymb; bracts short, oblong, brown, 
ciliate; pedicels short, lepidote. Calyx about one-sixth 
of an inch long, cupular, five-lobed, lepidote; lobes 
rounded, ciliate, with long, erect, unequal bristles. Corolla 
with a short tube, dilating into an infundibular campanu- 
late, five- to six-lobed limb, which is four inches broad across 
the lobes, white, or suffused with pale rose ; lobes rounc 
‘margins undulate; base externally more or less woolly. » 
Stamens sub-declinate, hairy from below the middle to the 
base. Anthers small. Ovary densely lepidote, five-celled ; 
style glabrous. Stigma capitate. 
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Fig. 1, portion of under-surface of leaf with lepidote scales; 2, calyx and 
ovary; 8, scale from do.; 4, and 5, stamens :—adl enlarged. 
