404 MH. S. T, DUNN: А REVISION 
Distinguishable among allied species by its setose leaf-veins, sepals woolly 
within, large corolla, yellow anthers, and bottle-shaped glabrous ovary. Аз 
an ornamental plant it is cultivated in many temperate countries. The leaves 
on the young shoots are frequently variegated with white and pink. 
Ito states that Watatabi (the Japanese name of this species) is well known 
for its peculiar attraction for cats, which will collect from some distance 
round, exhibiting marks of intense excitement when withies or faggots of the 
shrub are brought into the village. 
5. А. TETRAMERA, Marin. in Acta Hort. Petrop. xi. (1890) 35; Finet et 
Gagn., Fl. As, Or, ii. (1907) 21; С. К. Schneider, Ш. Handb. LaubholzL. ii. 
(1909) 327. 
CHINA: Kansu, fide Marim. Szechuen, Kiala, Soulie, п. 802! Farges, 
n. 580! 
б. А. VALVATA, Dunn, sp. nov. Frutex magnus, Caules juniores glabri, 
pallidi. Folia ovato-lanceolata, mucronato-serrata, 6-10 em, longa, 3-5 cm. 
lata, papyracea, glabra, acuminata, basi euneata, venis utrinque 5-6 arcuato- 
ascendentibus, laminis petiolo duplo longioribus. Flores 1—3-ni, brevi- 
peduneulati, axillares, pedicellis 1 em. longis sparse puberulis, bracteolis 
linearibus minutis ; sepala 2-3, a basi ad apicem stricte valvata, ovata, acuta, 
У mm. longa, interne puberula ; petala oblonga, apice rotundata, imbricata, 
basi inter se et eum staminibus coalita, 12 mm. longa ; anther lute: ; 
ovarium ampulliforme, glabrum, siccitate nigrum. Flores hermaphroditos 
petalis nuper delapsis tantum vidi. 
CHINA: Kiangsi, Kewkiang, Lushan Mts., Bullock, n. 121! 
NEUT, 2. Leiocarpæ, Dunn, sect, nov. 
Folia subglabra ; rami novelli glabri; ovarium immaculatum, glabrum, 
-cylindricum, 
7. А. Когомгста, Maxim. in Mem. Acad. Sei. St. Pétersb, ix. (1859) 63 ; 
‘Carrière in Rev, Hort. 1872, 395; Regel in Gartenfl. 1880, 184 ; Maxim. in 
Bull, Acad. St. Pétersb. xxxi. (1886) 19; Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxiii. 
(1886) 79; Korsh. in Act. Hort. Petrop. xii. (1892) 317; E. Pritz. in Diels 
in Engl. Jahrb. xxix, (1900) 470; Кот. in Act. Hort, Petrop. xxv. (1905) 
36; Diels in Engl. Jahrb. xxxvi. Beibl. 82 (1905) 76; Finet et Gagn., Fl. As. 
Or. ii. (1907) 20 ; С. К. Schneider, Ш. Handb. Laubholzl. ii. (1909) 327, 
f. 216 ; Nakai in Journ. Coll. Sci. Tokyo, xxvi. (1909) 98.—А. platyphylla, 
A. Gray, ex Miq. in Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.- Bat. ii. (1867) 15, fide Bret- 
schneider.—Prunus ? Kolomikta, Marim. in Rupr. in Bull. Phys. Math. Acad. 
xv. (1857) 262.— Kalomikta manshurica, Regel in Bull. Phys. Math. Acad. 
xv. (1857) 219.—Trochostigma Kolomicta. Rupr. in Bull, Phys. Math. Acad. 
xv. (1857) 262. 
