compact bush, with thick leathery leaves, and that seedlings 
from crosses with it and other garden forms of the genus 
are now growing at Kew. 
Of the Himalayan species, R. Smirnovi is nearest to PR. 
lanatum in foliage, differing from it and from all the large 
Indian species with woolly undersurfaces of the leaves in 
the infundibular corolla. 
Descr.—A small robust tree, fifteen to twenty feet high ; 
branches stout, compact, young clothed with a grey 
felted wool, as are the leaves beneath petioles pedicels 
and calyx. Leaves three to five inches long, by one to 
one and a quarter broad, narrowed into a stout petiole, 
elliptic-oblong, subacute, thickly coriaceous, margins sub- 
recurved, upper surface dark green with a yellowish 
sunken midrib, and very obscure nerves, under grey-white 
or very pale brown, with a stout midrib; nerves six to 
eight pairs; petiole half an inch long. Flowers in a com- 
pact globose sessile head six inches in diameter; pedicels 
short, stout. Calyx a small tomentose 5-lobed cup ; 
lobes broadly ovate, obtuse. Corolla funnel-shaped, with 
a short tube, and very large open corolla, three inches in 
diameter, rose-red ; lobes rounded, with broad crisped and 
curled darker rose-colrd. margins; upper lobe speckled 
on the disk with scattered oval brownish spots. Stamens 
10, declinate; filaments slender, rose-colrd., hairy in the 
lower half; anthers oblong, yellow. Ovary cylindric- 
conic, tomentose, 5-celled ; style recurved, stigma simply 
truncate.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Stamen ; 2, top of style and stigma ; 3, calyxand ovary; 4, transverse 
- section of ovary :—All enlarged. : 
