larum, pulpá per porum apicis evacuatá, collapsis cutibus) sparsa: petioli 
9-unciales. Panicule decussato-divaricate. ntheræ profunde sagittate. 
Stigma cuspis continua bifida. 
Native of China and Japan. Introduced by Sir Joseph 
Banks in 1790. In the Lambertian Herbarium there are 
several spontaneous samples from Japan. 
Cultivated in the hothouse of the Nursery of Messrs. 
Colvill in the King’s Road, where the drawing was made. 
A straight simple or sometimes slightly branched shrub, 
about five feet high. Leaves cordate and pointed, the 
largest nearly a foot in length and almost as much in 
breadth, connected by an interpetiolary line of hair: petioles 
nearly nine inches long. Panicles deep scarlet throughout, 
from 6 inches to a foot long, upright, decussately spread- 
ing, loosely but numerously flowered. 
The under side of the whole foliage is generally found 
to be thickly studded underneath with small round shining 
flat-pressed scales, which we take to be the collapsed epi- 
dermides or skins of the glandular fur, the pulp or con- 
tents of the pile having been evacuated by a pore at the top 
of each hair; at least this is our view of the origin of these 
scales, the formation of which, we think, we have seen in 
progress. Jacquin has not noticed any scales in his plant, 
and perhaps they may in some instances be absent, or at 
least not have assumed that form in certain stages of the 
growth. 
It is an extremely ornamental plant. 
