rs in their native habitat are of a crimson pink 
mh gradually turns to a delicate white, or to wn 
suffused with pink. The affinity of 2. carneum wit 
ft. Veitchianum, Hook., also a Burmese species which 
has been figured at t. 4992 of this work, is very marked, 
and if only herbarium material of the two be consulted, 
the impression might be formed that they are barely 
separable. When, however, the figures made ae 
living material of the two species are compared, severa 
differences are manifest. In 2. Veitchianum the calyx- 
lobes are usually considerably larger, and are always less 
ciliate, while the corolla, which is white, is always larger 
and is yellow inside the tube, its lobes being suberect in 
place of spreading and having strikingly crispate margins. 
DESCRIPTION.— Shrub, about 3 ft. high; twigs densely 
brown-lepidote. Leaves elliptic-obovate, subacute, base 
obtuse or slightly cuneate, 2;-43 in. long, 14-14 in. wide, 
coriaceous, deep green above, closely reticulate, glabrous, 
glaucous and lepidote with yellow glands beneath; mid- 
rib raised beneath, with 5_8 lateral nerves along each 
side which are visible on both surfaces, are somewhat 
curved, and become very slender towards the margin of 
the leaf; petiole 3~3 in. long, densely lepidote. Bud- 
ovate, ciliate at the tip with long hairs and densely 
lepidote outside. Coroll1 flesh-coloured ; tube 11-1} in. 
lower half, up to 1? in. Jo : 
3 in. long, densely lepidote ; style exserted, 2; in. long, 
densely lepidote, pink upwards; stigma capitate, brown, 
viscid, } in. across, 
midi Sasi aan C8 
Fig. 1, portion of a leaf, show 
ing lower surface ; 2, scales from a leaf; 8, calyx 
and pistil; 4, calyx and Ovary; 5, outside of a corolla-lobe,; showing scales ; 
6 and 7, stamens :—ai/ enlarged. 
