stellate down, and which form rosettes on the branches of a 
singular appearance. The same occurs on Himalayan and 
Khasian specimens, which bear another gall that is branched 
like a stag’s horn, and resembles somewhat that which occurs 
on the Himalayan R/ws, and is imported and used in tanning. 
The plant from which the accompanying drawing was 
taken, flowered in the Temperate House of the Royal Gardens _ 
in June, 1871. 
Drsor. A large shrub or small spreading tree; branches 
slender, drooping, glabrous, the youngest sprinkled with 
minute stellate down, as are the young leaves and calyces. 
Leaves very variable in size and form, one and a half to 
three inches long, usually elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, some- 
times much broader and trapeziform-ovate, or almost 
rounded, acute or acuminate, rarely obtuse or rounded at 
the tip, base narrowed into the short slender petiole ; margins 
usually regularly acutely glandular-serrate, sometimes ob- 
tusely lobed on one side; surfaces quite glabrous; nerves 
strong beneath; petiole one-third to one-half inch long. 
Flowers three-quarters to one inch in diameter, in terminal 
few (3—6)-flowered cymes, rarely solitary and axillary ; cymes 
equalling or exceeding the leaves, drooping; peduncles and 
_ pedicels slender. Calyx-tube turbinate or campanulate, — 
green, with five obscure lobes or teeth. Pefals white, elliptic, 
obtuse or acute, densely stellately pubescent outside. Stamens 
with rather slender filaments and long linear anthers, 
minutely pubescent. Style slender. Fruit one-third to one- 
half inch in diameter, globose, subtended by the brown 
membranous remains of the calyx, hoary. Seeds pale-brown. 
—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Corolla laid open ; 2, stamens; 8, pistils :—all magnified ; 4, ripe 
fruit :—of the natural size. 
