inflorescence, and, as Hemsley has pointed out, they are 
dimorphic as regards the relative length of the style and 
the position of the stamens; all the flowers of one 
inflorescence have the style exserted and the stamens 
included in the tube; in another inflorescence these con- 
ditions are reversed. The plant from which the material 
for our figure has been obtained is one which has been grown 
ina border in a greenhouse at Kew. Here it thrives well and 
grows into a shapely bush some six feet high which flowers 
freely every spring. It bears pruning well and the shoots 
root readily if set in a propagating frame in autumn. 
Description.—Shrub 4-6 ft. high; branches 2—3-fureate, 
when young adpressed-setose. Leaves ovate or elliptic-ovate, 
sharply acuminate, base slightly cordate or rounded, 23-7 in. 
long, 14-34 in. wide, entire, papery, when young sparingly 
hairy especially on the nerves, soon nearly glabrous, ciliate ; 
lateral nerves about 8 on each side, arched, distinct above, 
more prominent beneath, towards the margin somewhat 
indistinct; petioles about 14 lin. long, setulose-puberulous ; 
stipules persistent, soon reflexed, ovate-lanceolate, obtuse 
or subacute, 3-2 in. long, at the base 1-2 in. wide, 
coriaceous, adpressed-pubescent. Cymes terminal, corym- 
bose, many-flowered, up to 44 in. wide; bracts ovate- 
lanceolate, obtuse or subacute, up to 4 in. long and } in. 
wide, coriaceous, densely adpressed hairy outside; bracteoles 
small. lowers with reddish-purple corolla-tube and rose- 
coloured corolla-lobes. Receptacle campanulate, under a 
line deep, white-puberulous. Calyx with very short ovate- 
obtuse lobes puberulous outside. Corolla with a cylindric 
tube about } in. long, setulose-puberulous outside, pilose 
within; throat yellow-villous; limb 3-2 in. across, lobes 
5-6, oblong with rounded tips, over 1 lin. jong, under 
1 lin. wide. Anthers attached in the throat or about the 
middle of the corolla-tube, 1 lin. long; filaments under 
1 lin. long, glabrous, Disk annular, glabrous. Style half 
as long as the tube in one state or longer than the tube 
and exserted in another, 2-lobed, glabrous. Capsule sub- 
globose, slightly 2-lobed, } in. across, setulose-puberulous. 
Seeds minute. 
Fig. 1, calyx and pistil ; 2, section of calyx, showing disk; 3, corolla laid 
open ; 4, hairs from inside of corolla; 5 and 6, stamens :—all enlarged, 
