as terminal flowers. 0. swavis, which is not hardy at Kew, 
and O. Delavayi together constitute a distinet section of the 
genus, to which Mr, Franchet has given the name Siphos- 
manthus. O. Delavayi may be increased by late summer 
cuttings, 
Drscriprion.—Shrub, 8 ft. high, evergreen, freely branch- 
ing; bark grey; young shoots puberulous. Leaves ellip- 
tic, acute or somewhat obtuse, base cuneate or somewhat 
rounded, margin sharply serrate or sometimes obscurely 
toothed, about 2 in. long, 1 in, wide, coriaceous, glabrous, 
deep green above, rather paler beneath, dotted with dark 
oil-glands; petiole 1 lin. long, finely puberulous above. 
Flowers in terminal clusters, at first enclosed in wide ovate 
or rounded, scarious, ciliolate bud-scales 1-2 lin. long ; 
pedicels puberulous, short, Calyx tubular-campanulate, 
4-lobed rather beyond the middle; lobes rounded, blunt, 
ciliate. Corolla white, glabrous, fragrant; tube slightly 
widened upwards, over in, long; lobes obovate-elliptic, 
obtuse, about 2 lin. long. Stamens inserted about the 
middle of the corolla tube; filaments very short ; anthers 
ovate-oblong with a shortly apiculate connective. Ovary 
ellipsoid, about as long ‘as the style; stigma 2-lobed. 
fruit ovate-rotund, very dark blue. 
Fig. 1, calyx and _pistil; 2, calyx, laid open, showing the ovary; 3, corolla, 
laid open, showing the stamens; 4 and 5, anthers :—al/ enlarged, ee 
