Flora,” Sir W. J. Hooker. described this species as 
O. crinita, but before the description appeared, the name 
was altered to Q. stellata which had already been pub- 
lished by Dr. D. Don. The species, which extends from 
the North-Western Himalaya to China, has again been 
introduced to Europe from the Calcutta garden ; the material 
for our figure has been derived from a plant raised from 
Sikkim seeds sent from the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta, 
by Major Gage. The plant is easily grown, and under 
ordinary greenhouse conditions it forms a shrub about two 
feet in height which flowers in autumn. 
Drscription.—Shrub, 2-7 ft. high; branchlets 4-angied, 
reddish upwards, below covered with a thin bark, scabrid. 
Leaves opposite, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, base rounded, 
23-6 in. long, 3-2 in. wide, membranous, sparingly and 
shortly strigillose, ciliate, 5-nerved from the base ; petioles 
3-3 In. long. Flowers terminal, clustered in few-flowered 
cymes; bracts wide triangular, } in. long and wide, 
ciliate. Calyx-tube urceolate, pale-green, 3 in. long, 2 in. 
wide; segments 4, linear-lanceolate, sharply serrate, } in. 
long; hairs stellate, stalked, near the base minute, towards 
the apex larger; stalks of the hairs green, rays about 8 to 
a hair, reddish. Corolla lilac-red; petals 4, wide ovate or 
orbicular, ciliate, 13 in. long, 14 in. wide. | Stamens 8, 
equal, yellow ; anthers incurved, connective 2-callose in 
front. Ovary setose at the tip; style white, elongate, 
declinate, upcurved at the tip; stigma black, simple. 
Fig. 1, port’on of a leaf; 2, vertical section of calyx and pistil; 3 and 4, 
anthers; 5, a hair from the ovary :—all enlarged, 
