like many other chinese plants, it will be found sufficiently 
hardy to live in the open ground. At present being rare, 
it is kept in the conservatory. Seems to be of as easy culti- 
vation and propagation as any of the common species of 
the same genus. 
rE 
a The calyx deprived of the corolla, to show the stamens. 6 The calyx 
cut down and deprived of the corolla and stamens, to show the two 
pistils. 
