cultivation. More recently it has been found in the Amur 

 district, and in the Island of Saghalien, by the late Mr. 

 Maries in the central mountains of Nipon, at elevations 

 of two thousand feet to seven thousand feet. 



The specimen figured is from a plant in the Arboretum 

 of the Royal Gardens, Kew, where it has been for many 

 years, flowering in spring. It was probably introduced 

 from Japan by collectors sent out from Kew upwards of 

 fifty years ago. 



. Descr.—A glabrous shrub, with black bark and spread- 

 ing branches. Leaves two to three inches loner, shortly 

 petioled spreading and recurved, ovate-lanceolate, sharply 

 serrate, bright green and reticulately rugose on the upper 

 surface, beneath pale, with prominent nerves and nervules 

 base rounded; nerves six to eight pairs, spreading 

 flowers m shortly peduncled cymes, crowded, sub-sessile°; 

 bracteoles subulate. Calyx about an inch long, two-lipped 

 tube glabrous ; lips ciliate, recurved, upper trifid, lower 

 bipartite, with linear, cuspidate segments. Corolla pale 

 yellow speckled with orange in the throat and on the 

 lower lobe, slightly decurved, tube short, narrow, cylindric 

 at the base and hairy within, inflated and campanulate 

 above; limb about an inch in diameter; lobes sub-equal, 

 orbicular Dnh-gland sub-globose, hairy. Filaments hairy 

 towards the base; anthers linear-oblong, glandular-pubes- 

 globose ~J. RH St0Ut ; Sdgma ^^ three " lobed J lobes 



Fig. 1, caljxwitt bracteoles, style, and Bti^ma- 9 W* «* n x , , . 



open with stamens and dxsk^la^d^TanS 4 fcld^ a ;' nbe L * ld 

 section of ovary -.-all enlarged; 6, fruit ofthen a t U ral7i£ ' ** transverse 



