1903, by Mr. E. H. Wilson, as a shrub from six to twenty 

 feet in height, with white or pink flowers. It was raised 

 by Messrs. J. Veitch and Sons at Coombe Wood, from 

 seed collected by Wilson, and the plant figured was 

 purchased for Kew from their establishment in 1913. 

 So far as winter cold is concerned, R. monosematum is 

 quite hardy at Kew, but, as with R. pachytrichum, its 

 flowers, and even its young shoots, are liable to be 

 injured by late spring frosts following mild -weather in 

 January and February. For this reason it is best 

 planted in a position sheltered from the north and east. 



Description. — Shrub ; young shoots tinged with 

 purple, glabrous near the base, upwards densely leafy 

 and closely covered with long stiff dark-coloured glan- 

 dular hairs. Leaves oblong, abruptly and rather acutely 

 acuminate, unequally rounded at the base, 3-4| in. long, 

 §-lj in. wide, the tip about £ in. long, firmly leathery, 

 green above and when dry closely reticulate, paler and 

 very finely reticulate beneath, glabrous on both sur- 

 faces ; lateral nerves about 15 on each side the midrib, 

 somewhat raised on both surfaces, anastomosing and 

 much branched within the margin ; petiole } in. long, 

 hispid especially near the base. Inflorescence terminal, 

 about 12-flowered ; bracts silky outside; pedicels f-4 in. 

 long, densely clothed with dark glandular hairs. Calyx 

 short, obscurely 5-lobed, glandular-pubescent outside; 

 lo bes ovate-triangular, rather obtuse, glandular. Corolla 

 wide funnel-shaped, white suffused with rose-pink, out- 

 side reddish, inside with a purple basal blotch about i in. 

 across; tube 1^ in. long, about f in. wide, glabrous; 

 lobes o, spreading or recurved, wide ovate-rotund, emar- 

 gmate, §-£ in. across. Stamens 10, included ; filaments 

 pubescent towards the base, f-1 in. long; anthers small, 

 dark-purple about T V in. Jong. Ovary 6-celled, densely 

 c othed with long hairs tipped with purple glands ; style 

 glabrous, exserted, yellow, about II in. long? 



and ris^T °U?\ Wi l h ape ? of P^ tiole ! 2 > a P<* of leaf ; 3, bract ; 4, calyx 

 stamens 9 faK?" ^ ^ * he ° Vary ; 6, corolla, laid open 7 and 8, 

 stamens , 9, transverse section of ovary ;-all enlarged 



