derived from a plant obtained from Messrs. J. Veitch & 

 Sons for the Kew collection in 1908. The species was 

 introduced by means of seed obtained for Messrs. Veitch 

 by Mr. E. H. Wilson during his first journey to China on 

 their behalf. The plant itself is quite hardy, but at Kew 

 the flowers, which open about the middle of April, are apt 

 to be injured by late frosts. It thrives in either a peaty 

 soil or a sandy loam enriched by leaf-mould. 



Description. — Shrub ; twigs rigid, clothed with purple 

 smooth bark. Leaves oblong-elliptic, suddenly bluntly 

 mucronate, obtuse or rounded at the base, 3-4 in. long, 

 lj-lf in. wide, firmly coriaceous, dark green above with 

 impressed reticulation, beneath yellowish-green, finely 

 papillose, eglandular ; midrib slightly sunk above, raised 

 beneath and gradually narrowed towards the leaf -tip ; 

 lateral nerves about 12 on each side, very slender, flexuous, 

 slightly impressed above but hardly raised beneath ; 

 veins beneath finely reticulate ; petiole stout, { in. long, 

 channelled above, red-purple, transversely wrinkled when 

 dry, glabrous. Flowers terminal, about 8 to a truss ; 

 pedicels about J in. long, shortly but closely glandular- 

 papillose ; bracts adpressed-villous on the outer side. 

 Calyx small, 5-lobed ; lobes unequal, ovate-rounded, 

 glandular-papillose. Corolla white within, rose-carmine 

 outside; tube wide-turbinate, about l£ in. long, and 

 about 1 in. wide at the mouth, finely puberulous near 

 the base inside ; limb over 2 in. across, 7-lobed ; lobes 

 spreading or slightly recurved, semiorbicular, emarginate, 

 over | in. long and wide. Stamens 12-14, included ; 

 filaments up to f in. long, densely pubescent below ; 

 anthers purple, T \y in. long. Ovary beset with white 

 stalked glands, usually 6-celled, J in. long ; style exserted, 

 glabrous, 1| in. long; stigma viscid, pale yellow, T ^ in. 

 across. 



Fig. 1, leaf-tip ; 2, calyx and pistil ; 3 and 4, stamens ; 5, transverse section 

 of ovary : — all enlarged. 



