been large glands on the disk between the bases of the calyx- 

 lobes ; these glands I find only occasionally in the Kew plant, 

 and always very minnte. The disk itself is densely villous in 

 the Kew plant and pulvinate, as also in all the wild specimens 

 in the Herbarium. The corona of the corolla varies extremely 

 in development and margin, the latter being either quite even 

 and entire, or obscurely and sometimes irregularly notched. 

 The position of the stamens and length of the style all vary 

 much and not quite according to any plan, and I find three 

 stigmas in one flower with a two-celled ovary. It remains 

 to add that the original R. odorata of Jacquin is described 

 by him as a native of maritime rocks at Havana (whence 

 Loddiges' R. speciosa was obtained), where it forms an inele- 

 gant bush, six feet high, with the flowers " smelling most 

 sweetly " of violets, and a usually six-cleft calyx and corolla, 

 though the stamens are invariably five. 



Descr. An erect branching rather slender shrub, the branches 

 and petioles clothed with rather spreading soft pubescence. 

 Leaves two to two and a half inches long, very shortly 

 petioled, elliptic-ovate or oblong or rounded, obtuse or sub- 

 acute, rarely acuminate, above scabrid deep green and raised 

 between the nerves, beneath glabrous except the raised slen- 

 der nerves and midrib, which are pubescent ; petiole one-sixth 

 of an inch long ; stipules broadly triangular, with long cus- 

 pidate points. Corymbs one to two inches in diameter, 

 branched, with rounded or flattened top, branches and short 

 pedicels almost tomentose, bracts linear. Flowers vermilion 

 or bright orange-red, with a more yellow eye. Calyx-tube 

 obovoid ; lobes linear, obtuse, more than half the length of 

 the corolla-tube ; erect, spreading after flowering. Corolla- 

 tube a quarter of an inch long, slightly dilated upwards, 

 velvety externally ; limb nearly half an inch in diameter ; 

 crown at the mouth raised or not entire or crenate or obscurely 

 notched. Stamens midway in the tube in one form of flower, 

 much higher up and even exerted in others. Disc tumid, 

 tomentose. Style stout, hairy towards the base, very 

 variable in length, stigma two-lobed. — J. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Flowers cut vertically : — enlarged. 



