B. elatior was introduced by Messrs. Veitch, who sent speci- 
mens for figuring in May, 1876, at which time also it 
flowered at Kew. 
Descr. A slender twiggy erect shrub, four to five feet high, 
and much branched. Stem and branches more or less clothed 
with long soft, rather distant spreading hairs. Leaves close 
set, uniform and rather distichous on the flowering branches, 
one to two inches long, by one-half to three-quarters inch 
broad, pinnate; rachis slightly dilated between the pinne 
which are in 2-6 pairs with an odd one, sessile, linear, 
acuminate, flat, quite entire. J/owers very numerous on the 
branches, drooping, shortly peduncled ; peduncle glabrous or 
hairy, with two small bracts about the middle. Sepals broadly 
ovate, acuminate. Corolla dark, red-brown, nearly globose ; 
petals nearly orbicular, apiculate, much imbricate. Stamens 
8, filaments very short, subulate ; those opposite the sepals 
with small yellow anthers placed under the stigmatic lobes ; 
then alternate with large black anthers. Ovary pubescent, 
hid under the obtusely pyramidal stigma, which is 4-lobed at 
the base.—J. D. H. | 
Fig. 1, Portion of leaf; 2, peduncle and flower: 3, flower with petals removed 
—all enlarged. 
