and it is also represented in South America, South Africa, 

 Australia, and the Pacific Islands, including six species in 

 the Hawaian group. Some of the last are shrubs five to 

 eight feet high. 



L. crispidens, Hemsl., was first collected by Mr. T. 

 Watters, near Ichang, Hupeh, and described by Dr. 

 Hance, who erroneously referred it to the genus Stimp- 

 sonia. It has since been collected in the same Province 

 by Dr. A. Henry and Mr. E. H. Wilson, Collector for 

 Messrs, James Veitch & Sous. The plant figured was 

 raised from seed sent home by Mr. Wilson. It is a very 

 pretty and highly floriferous plant, which has not yet, so 

 far as I am aware, reached its best under cultivation. 

 Judging rather from the wild specimens than those 

 cultivated, it ought to have a future in European gardens. 



Descr. — A perennial herb, sometimes sub-scapose with 

 numerous slender scapes, sometimes with a branched stem 

 (as in the plant figured) bearing true leaves, glabrous 

 throughout, five to six inches high. Leaves rather thick, 

 and somewhat fleshy, margin crisply toothed, undulate, 

 tinged with red ; radical ones rosulate, obovate, spathulate, 

 or sometimes nearly orbicular, one to three inches long, 

 tapering downwards or sub-petiolate ; cauline some- 

 times like the radical in the lower part of the stem, but 

 usually all smaller and bract-like, alternate, ovate, or lan- 

 ceolate, sessile, more or less stem-clasping, and gradually 

 smaller upwards. Flowers numerous, solitary in the axils 

 of the bracts, on long, slender pedicels, rose-pink, half to 

 three-quarters of an inch in diameter. Pedicels longer 

 than the bracts, strongly recurved in fruit. Calyx- 

 segments ovate-lanceolate, "longer than the corolla-tube, 

 acute, few-toothed. Corolla-tube short, cylindrical ; lobes 

 obovate-oblong, minutely toothed . Stamens included in the 

 corolla; filaments connate to the middle ; anthers having a 

 few hairs near the tips. Ovary glabrous ; style scarcely 

 equalling the stamens; stigma small, capitate. Capsule 

 small, globose, five-valved, valves opposite to and shorter 

 than the calyx-lobes. Seeds about twenty to twenty-five, 

 very small, angular, minutely punctate.— W. B. H. 



3 T\}'JJ nSe T m * and V ^ °- Cal - yx ; 2 ' P art of eorolla and three stamens; 

 3, amhoxaum ; 4 a stamen showing inner face of anther :— all enlarged. 



