3506 MR. 8. T. DUNN: А BOTANICAL 
rufo-hispidi, tandem exigue setosi, alteri laterales, breves, tenuiter strigulosi 
vel hispiduli. Alabastra supra callos annulares foliorum delapsorum longe 
aureo-barbata. Folia oblongo-ovata, adpresse serrata, 10-20 cm. longa, 
4-6 em. lata, chartacea, preter petiolum sparse hispidum 2-3 em. longum 
glabra. Сушю axillares, sub-3-floree, petiolis breviores. Flores viriduli ; 
masculorum sepala 5, ovata, subacuta, 5 mm. longa, dense rufo-tomentosa ; 
petala 5, glabra, obovata, apice rotundata, 10 mm. longa, staminibus fuscis 
sesquilongiora ; ovarii rudimentum 2 mm. latum, tomentosum, pedunculis 
gracilibus tomentosis ; foeminei similes sed sepala basi coalita, lobis ovatis 
obtusis, 8 mm. longa ; stamina rudimentaria ; ovarium depresso-globosum, 
6 mm. latam. Fructus immaturus cylindricus, 10 mm. longus, 5 mm. latus, 
apice rotundatus, stylis plurimis coronatus ; styli 4 mm. longi. 
Yenping Mountains, in the upper valleys. Hongkong Herb. 2400. 
This beautiful and interesting plant is dedicated to Mr. W. Dotting 
Hemsley, F.R.S., the distinguished keeper of the Kew Herbarinm, whose 
instruction and kindness I gratefully acknowledge. The habit of this plant 
and all the other Actinidias that I have seen recalls that of Rubus, that is to 
say, they form large straggling bushes among rocks and undergrowth, in 
woods or in hedges. When occasion permits they may form real climbers, 
but I have not seen them in this condition. The present case gives a good 
example of the usual method of growth, and an account of it will elucidate 
some of the apparent anomalies of the specimens which have hitherto been 
received in herbaria. Each new extension of the shrub begins in this case 
with a long, arching, densely strigose tawny shoot bearing abnormal narrow 
leaves. In the autumn these leaves fall, leaving large thickened leaf-sears 
and a bud above each, protected by a tuft of stiff yellow hairs. These buds 
develop in the spring into short flower- and leaf-bearing shoots, the leaves and 
the indumentum being quite different to those of the primary shoots. The 
plant thus has, and so have also many other members of the genus, dimorphic 
stems, leaves, and flowers. The male and female bushes are, so far as I have 
seen, similar in their vegetative portions. 
0? ACTINIDIA LANCEOLATA, Dunn, sp. n. 
Frutex magnus, vagans, semi-scandens. Caules vetusti nigri, glabri, 
lenticellati ; ramuli florigeri dense cinnamomeo-puberuli, Folia lanceolata, 
mucronato-serrata, 5-7 cm. longa, 2-3 ст. lata, papyracea, supra sparse et 
minute puberula, subtus breviter albo-tomentosa, acuminata, basi cuneata, 
venis utrinque 4-5 arcuato-ascendentibus, petiolis 1-14 cm. longis cum 
venis majoribus cinnamomeo-pubescentibus. Flores 3-6-ni, in eymas ssepius 
umbelliformes axillares pedunculatas dispositi, pedunculis 8-6 mm. longis cum 
pedicellis calycibusque tenuiter cinnamomeo-puberulis, bracteis linearibus, 
minutis ; sepala 5, rotundata, 8—4 mm. longa ; petala viridula, oblonga, 
acuta, vel rotundata, sepalis paullo longiora ; maseulorum stamina lutea, 
