European gardens, because it was already not only in 
cultivation but in flower in the garden of Mr. M. L. de 
Vilmorin at Les Barres in 1904. The flowers vary some- 
what in colour from white to pink and pale purple, with 
yellow or orange blotches on the dorsal lobes of the corolla. 
Its nearest ally is R. lutescens, Franch., but from this it is 
easily distinguished, even when out of flower, by the line of 
persistent hairs on the midrib of the leaf beneath. 
Description.—Shrub, 34-5 ft. high; shoots at first 
pubescent, with pale lepidote bark, ultimately glabrous, the 
bark turning brown and with the scales more scattered and 
hardly visible. Leaves lanceolate or wide lanceolate, acute or 
subacuminate, mucronate, base wide cuneate, 14-22 in. long, 
3-4 in. wide, firmly papery, green and puberulous above, 
paler beneath and hirsute with long persistent white hairs 
only on the midrib, elsewhere rather copiously lepidote, 
midrib raised beneath, lateral nerves about 8 on each side, 
fairly visible on both surfaces, the finer nervation sunk 
above, margin somewhat revolute, towards the base when 
young beset with a few long deciduous hairs; petiole 
4-4 in. long, pubescent. lowers showy; pedicels 4-2 in. 
long, lepidote. Calyz-lobes short, ciliate, rounded. - Corolla 
campanulate; tube over 4 in. long; lobes 5, spreading, 
. their margins undulate, the upper lobes blotched, ovate or 
ovate-oblong, moderately acute or quite obtuse, nearly 1 in. 
long, 2 in. wide. Stamens 10, slightly exserted; filaments 
pilose below. Ovary densely lepidote and hairy except at 
base and tip; style 12 in. long, glabrous. 
Fig. 1, petiole and base of leaf, seen from below, showing disposition of 
sea'es and hairs; 2, scales from leaf; 3, calyx and pistil; 4, ovary; 5 and 6, 
stamens ; 7, transverse section of ovary :—all enlarged. 
