suitable for Himalayan species and is now a bush about 
6 feet high, with leathery dark green leaves, smooth above 
but densely woolly below. It has very rarely flowered ; the 
flowers now figured were produced in July, 1909. Although 
it has hitherto been afforded protection during winter there 
is reason to think, when its native habitat and the 
behaviour of other species from the same region are taken 
into account, that it may prove hardy in this country. 
Descriprion.— Shrub, or small tree, 12-20 feet high ; 
flowering twigs straight and stout, at first pubescent. 
Leaves distinctly petioled, alternate, persisting for 2-3 sea- 
sons, thickly coriaceous, firm, oblong-oblanceolate, 4—6 1n. 
long, the largest 2 in. wide above the middle, tip rounded 
and apiculate, base cuneate, glabrous and dark green above, 
beneath closely and firmly tawny-tomentose, midrib im- 
pressed above, strong and raised beneath, lateral nerves 
Inconspicuous on either surface; petiole stout, about Z in. 
long, pubescent at first, slightly channelled. lowers pale- 
rose, about 2 in. across, corymbose, corymbs 20-30-flowered, 
6-8 in. through ; pedicels somewhat slender, 14-12 in. long, 
sparingly clothed with crisp white hairs; bracts narrow, 
acute, shorter than the pedicels, tawny, with a white 
pubescence which soon disappears. Calyzx-lubes unequal, 
13-3 lin. long, lanceolate, obtuse, glandular-ciliate. Corolla 
widely campanulate, glabrous outside, within puberulous 
below the middle, 5-lobed halfway down, the lobes almost 
uniform, broad, rounded, faintly emarginate, recurved, the 
uppermost, which is slightly larger than the others, faintly 
dotted, all distinctly longitudinally veined. Stamens 10, 
one-third shorter than the corolla, alternately shorter and 
longer ; anthers short ; filaments filiform, with a band of 
vlandular stipitate hairs below the middle and a little above 
the base, Ovary 5-celled, densely clad with stout crisp 
hairs ; style glabrous, somewhat longer than the stamens. 
Capsule subeylindric, about 2 in. long, almost glabrous. 
Seeds under I lin. long, crested at both ends. 
4, Ba oh of a leaf showing undersurface ; 2, calyx and pistil; 3, stamens; 
section of ovary :—u/l, except 1, enlarged. 
