early weeks of 1920 however brought the blossoms of 
ft. strigillosum to perfection by the middle of February, 
when our drawing was prepared. This habit of early 
flowering renders the blossoms liable to injury by spring 
frost, and the young growths suffer from the same cause, 
It appears to succeed best in thin woodland, where it is 
shaded from the sun in the early and middle hours of 
the day. According to Mr. Millais the flowers vary in 
colour from rich red and crimson to white. The five 
black pouches at the base of the corolla are usually full 
of nectar. Even when out of flower &. strigillosum is 
readily distinguishable by its very bristly young shoots. 
Descrirtion.— Shrub, 4-5 ft., or at times a tree up to 20 ft. high ; twigs 
densely setose towards the tip, with long rigid blackish hairs. Leaves 
narrowly oblong-Janceolate, acutely acuminate, slightly narrowed and shortly 
cordate at the base, 3-6 in. long, 3-1} in. wide, firmly coriaceous: to nearly 
papery, reticulated above, beset underneath with crisped hairs; midrib sunk 
above and hispid towards the leaf-base, much raised beneath and tomentose ; 
lateral nerves about 12-18 along each side the midrib, from which they diverge 
at a wide angle, becoming obsolete towards the margin; petiole }—3 in. long, 
BY 
setose-hispid and tomentose. Inflorescence terminal, about 10-flowered ; 
bracts densely wooll 
y outside ; pedicels about 4 in. long, densely setose with 
black gland-tipped hairs. Calyx short, setose outside. Corolla red, with 
5 black basal blotches inside; tube narrow campanulate, glabrous outside, 
1} in. long, 1 in. wide at the throat; lobes 5, rounded, emarginate. 
Stamens 10, exserted; filaments pale purple, glabrous, about 1} in. long; 
anthers nearly black, 1 in. long. Ovary 5-celled, densely strigillose; style 
1s 
pale purple, rather longer than the stamens, glabrous, tipped by the lobulate 
stigma, Capsule about 2 in. long, densely setose with rigid purple hairs. 
Tas. 8864.—Fig. 
1, base of leaf; 2, bract; 3, calyx and pistil; 4, setose 
hairs; 5 and 6, st 
amens ; 7, section of ovary :—all enlarged, 
