it, through their collectors, from Java. It was originally 
introduced by Lobb when travelling for the elder Veitch in 
1854, and was said to come from Borneo, where Lobb was 
collecting; but as that indefatigable collector had already 
visited Mount Ophir, from whence he had sent excellent 
dried specimens, now in the Hookerian Herbarium, I suspect 
that the Bornean habitat is a mistake. 
This species is evidently most closely allied in flowers to 
R. jasminiflorum, Hook. (Tab. nost. 4524), also a native of 
Mount Ophir; and in foliage to the Himalayan 2. dland- 
Jordieftorum, Hook. (Tab. nost, 4930). 
Descr. A large shrub or small tree; branchlets red- 
brown, and, as well as the leaves beneath, petioles, pedicels, 
calyx, ovary (and corolla sparingly), clothed with red-brown 
lepidote scales. Leaves three to four inches long, elliptic or 
elliptic-lanceolate, acute at both ends, coriaceous, narrowed 
into a petiole one-third to two-thirds of an inch long, dark 
green above, red-brown beneath. Yowers in terminal few- 
flowered umbels, nodding, three-quarters of an inch long ; 
peduncles short, curved. Calye minute, 5-toothed. Corolla 
dull scarlet; tube three-quarters of an inch long, slightly 
curved, grooved, gibbous at the base; limb flat, horizontal, 
one-third to half an inch across; lobes orbicular. Stamens 
ten; anthers short, small, hardly exserted. Ovary slender, 
5-celled, clothed with scales; style slender : stigma minute, 
5-lobed.—J. _D. H. 
ctl nln ans nsenetneigcetela 
Fig. 1, Stamen; 2, calyx and ovary; 3, transverse section of ditto :—all 
magnified. 
