from a plant raised from Wilson’s seed of this last 
gathering, received at Kew from the Arnold Arboretum 
in the spring of 1909. The species was described from 
the Abbé David’s specimens by the late Mr. Franchet as 
f. moupinense. It is a very distinct plant readily 
recognised in the section with glandular leaves by the 
subverticelled somewhat cordate leaves, the large leafy 
calyx, the black-pilose twigs and petioles, the large 
white corollas spotted with red within the posterior side 
of the tube, and by the large conspicuous carmine 
anthers. The species is of sturdy dense habit, and as 
young plants speedily reach the flowering stage, blossom- 
ing for the first time when three or four years old and 
only a few inches in height, it is admirably adapted for 
the Rock Garden. According to Wilson it reaches a 
height of two to four feet and is usually found growing 
upon evergreen oaks and other broad-leaved trees. But 
in spite of its epiphytic character it appears to thrive 
very well in the sandy peat in which rhododendrons as a 
whole do so well. It has hitherto flowered in February 
and March, a date so early as to render the blossoms 
liable to injury by frost. 
DrscripTion.—Shrub, usually about 23 ft. high, in the 
wild state often epiphytic; branches leafy upwards, 
_ subterete, y'5-} in. thick, black-pilose, at length glabrous. 
Leaves somewhat verticillate, oblong-elliptic or ovate- 
elliptic, apex abruptly and bluntly mucronate, base 
rounded or subcordate, 3-12 in. long, 1-1 in. wide, 
firmly coriaceous, margin strongly recurved, usually 
ciliate, at length glabrous, above glabrous save for the 
sparingly puberulous midrib, slightly verrucose, beneath 
densely lepidote with yellow glands; midrib slightly 
narrowed from base to apex; lateral nerves usually 8, 
alternate, leaving the midrib at an angle of 45 degrees, 
slightly sunk above and faintly flexuous, beneath incon- 
spicuous; petioles stout, }-! in. long, usually densely 
black-pilose. Flowers terminal, 1-3-nate, shortly pedi- 
celled, pedicels about { in. long, finely puberulous, 
slender. Perulae widely ovate-orbicular, mucronulate, 
over 4 in. long, sparingly glandular outside, ciliolate, 
scarlet towards the tip. Calya well-developed, foliaceous, 
