the present plant in the shortness of their calyx-lobes, 
while the former has the lower part of the corolla-tube 
pilose outside, and the latter has linear, obtuse leaves, 
about an inch long. 
The plant here figured was received at Kew in 1894 
from the St. Petersburg Botanic Gardens. It forms a 
compact bush, which has proved quite hardy, flowering 
freely in May, and ripening its fruit in July. 
Descr,—A much-branched shrub, about four feet high. 
Branches slender, quadrangular, glabrous. Leaves oval or 
ovate, obtuse, more rarely sub-acute, rounded or slichtly 
cordate at the base, largest nine lines long and four lines 
wide, glabrous; petioles slender, two lines long. lowers 
im pairs; peduncles four to six lines long; bracts lan- 
ceolate, shortly stalked, a little longer than the calyx ; 
bracteoles connate into a crenulate cup. Calyx three 
lines long; segments lanceolate, a little shorter than the 
tube. Corolla hypocrateriform, pale rose-coloured, pilose 
inside; tube four lines long; lobes oval, obtuse, three 
lines long. Anthers sub-sessile, apiculate, inserted just 
above the middle of the corolla-tube. Berries free, ovoid, 
four lines long, red.—C. H. W. right. 
Fig. 1, pair of flowers with corollas removed; 2, corolla laid open; 3 and 4, 
mes oan ®, transverse section of ovary; 6, branch with fruit :—all except 6 
