Kew in June, 1902, from which the accompanying plate 

 was made. 



Descr. — A large, very robust shrub, six to ten feet 

 high ; branches and branchlets glabrous, or pubescent 

 when young. Leaves four to six inches long, shortly 

 petioled, oblong or linear-oblong, obtuse or apiculate, base 

 cuneate or rounded, dark green and glabrous above, with 

 a stout midrib and ten to fifteen pairs of very slender, 

 arched nerves, beneath glabrous, or clothed laxly or densely 

 with a closely appressed brown tomentum of stellate hairs ; 

 petiole very stout. Flmvers in a globose, terminal, sessile 

 corymb four to six inches in diameter ; bracts orbicular- 

 ovate, acuminate, very coriaceous, glabrous ; pedicels one 

 to two inches long. Calyx very small, cupular, obtusely 

 five-lobed. Corolla between funnel- and bell-shaped, tube 

 short, limb two inches in diameter ; lobes large, spreading, 

 orbicular, retuse, white, with a faint rose-pink blush in 

 the mesial line reddening towards the tip ; throat and 

 three upper lobes closely sprinkled from the base to the 

 middle with fulvous spots. Stamens ten, filaments slender, 

 hairy towards the base; anthers small, yellow. Ovary 

 five-celled, pubescent. Capsule half an inch to one inch 

 in length.— J. D. H. 



Fig. 1, portion of leaf, tinder-surface ; 2, calyx and pistil ; 3, stamen ; 

 4, summit of style; 5, branched hair of leaf: — all enlarged; 6, capsule of 

 nat. size. 



