This shrub is quite hardy at Kew, blossoming as quite 
a small plant, and it is likely to become a general favourite. 
It is easily propagated from cuttings. The pink and 
white, very fragrant flowers remind one of Londeletia 
versicolor. 
Descr.—A dwarf, loosely branched shrub, clothed with 
stellate hairs. Branches straight, stiff, glabrescent. 
Leaves shortly stalked, thick, soft, densely hairy beneath, 
ovate-rotundate or almost orbicular, 1-2 in. in diameter, 
crenate-dentate ; primary veins prominent, running out 
into the teeth. Cymes terminal, almost sessile, very 
dense, 2-3 in. in diameter; bracteoles linear, thick, nearly 
equalling the calyx. Calyw-lobes ovate, erect, obtuse, 
slightly puberulous. Corolla pink and white, smooth, 
salver-shaped; tube cylindrical, about 4 in. long; lobes 
rounded, about 4 in. in diameter. Stamens included in the 
corolla. Fruit smooth, compressed, furrowed, surmounted 
by the enlarged calyx-lobes.—W. Bortinc Huser. 
Fig. 1, portion of leaf; 2, stellate hair from the upper surface of the same; 
3, pair of flowers; 4, hair from the under surface of a leaf; 5 and 6, stamens; 
7, pistil :—all enlarged. 
