





4i2 DE. F. BT7CHANAN WHITE' S 



sent by Mr. Sadler to Mr. Leefe, and now in Kew Herbarium, 

 has Ben Challum given as the locality. 



Mr. Sadler describes the wild plant as having "a dwarf 

 procumbent habit ; " and Messrs. Groves' specimens show this, 

 but the cultivated specimens sent to me look as if they had 

 become more upright. 



The following is a description taken from living specimens of 

 the plant found by Mr. Sadler, and now in cultivation : 



Twigs divaricate, slender, straight or subflexuose, purple-brown, 

 glabrous, shining; older bark brown or very dark olive-green, 

 roughened but shining ; youngest shoots with white pubescence, 

 when older green, or where exposed to the light dark red-brown 

 or purplish, shiniug, but with a few hairs. Buds at first pubescent, 

 then glabrous, yellowish-red, acute. Stipules (rare) half-cordate, 

 hairy, glandular-serrate on the margin. Leaves thin, dark 



green, slightly shining above, paler and dull below, at first 

 densely woolly with brownish-white hairs, at length almost or 

 quite glabrous ; roundish ; base rounded, subcordate, or unequal 

 and slightly euneate ; tip with a twisted point, or truncate, or 

 subemarginate ; upper surface concave ; margiu thickened and 

 incurved serrate-crenate, with incurved glandular teeth ; upper 

 surface rugose from the impressed veins, under surface with raised 

 reticulate veins, smaller veins pellucid ; petioles rather long and 

 slender ; the largest leaves 1| inch long and broad, but most of 

 them much smaller ; vernation involute. Catkins ( $ ) small (less 

 than \ inch long), dense-flowered, on lateral leafy peduncles 

 of about the same length as the catkin; peduncle-leaves 2-4, 

 ciliate, with buds in their axils, and stipulate ; peduncle and 

 rachis downy ; scales oblong, narrow and long, concave, glabrous 

 on the back, ciliate at the apex, and with a few hairs on the 

 inner surface, greenish yellow, those at the top of the catkin tinged 

 with pink at their tips; ovary conical from an ovate base, sub- 

 obtuse, with coarse woolly white pubescence; pedicel downy, 

 nearly three times as long as the nectary, which is thin in 

 texture, oblong or widened upwards, entire or cleft once or twice 

 at the apex or nearly to the base; style very short, thick, 

 greenish yellow ; stigmas bifid, suberect, as long as the style. 



In one specimen the uppermost scales are widened upwards, 

 broader and involvent, and have a few hairs on the back. 



In Prof. Dickson's plant the characters are much the same. 

 The older bark is duller, the buds are less acute, and the catkin- 









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