where it occurs as a small shrub, two feet high, in open 
stony places. Seed received from Mr. Forrest was sown 
in spring, 1914, by Mr. J. C. Williams of Caerhays Castle, 
Cornwall, who also shared some with Kew. The plants 
raised by Mr. Williams, to whom we are indebted for the 
material for our figure, flowered with him in 1917. The 
flowers, Mr. Williams finds, range from pink to white, and 
those that at first are flushed with pink are apt to fade to 
white. The plant is not difficult to raise, but, as is the 
case with very many species in this genus, there is much 
difference between the truss of a well-grown plant such 
as the one figured, and that of a badly grown one. 
Descriprion.— Shrublet 2-2} ft. high, fastigiately or rather loosely branched, 
young shoots clothed with loose brown scales and short stiff hairs ; buds narrow- 
ovoid, rather acute, their scales densely scaly and weakly ciliate. Leaves 
linear-lanceolate, finely mucronate, narrowed to the base, }-1} in. long, }—} in, 
wide, firmly leathery, revolute at the edge, dark-green on the upper surface 
which is indistinctly veined and rather closely scaly, below closely covered 
with tawny imbricate stipitate scales; midrib grooved above, raised beneath 
and there ultimately loosely scaly; petiole } in. long, channelled above, 
densely scaly. Flowers rose-coloured, clustered in a flattened subglobose 
umbel about 13-2 in, across; outer bud-scales more or less ovate, about } in. 
long, closely scaly externally and densely ciliate; pedicels 7 in. long, loosely 
sealy. Calyx small, about 29 in. long, split tal to the ‘base ; lobes wide 
rounded, imbricate, sparingly scaly and ciliate externally. Corolla hypocrateri- 
_ form; tube cylindric, 3-2 in, long, glabrous externally, rather villous within; 
limb spreading, $-} in. across; lobes oblong-orbicular with margin undulate. 
Stamens 5, included, about } in. long; filaments finely puberulous; anthers 
oblong. Ovary 5-celled, densely beset with small contiguous scales; style 
somewhat shorter than the ov , tipped by the 5-lobulate stigma. Capsule 
3 in. long, shortly stipitate, itt AOE Se ah 3 
Tas. 8831.—Fig. 1, portion of a leaf ; 2, scales from upper surface of leaf: 
8, scales from lower surface of leaf; 4, a flower; 5, calyx and pistil; 
6, vertical section of corolla; 7 and 8, stamens; 9, transverse section of 
ovary :—all enlarged, 
