who sent to Kew to be named flowering specimens of V/. 
Sandankwa in March last; it is not a little remarkable that 
a shrub, native of the Loochoo Islands, which are but little 
north of the tropics and within the zone of the typhoons 
of the Chinese Seas, should flourish in 52° N. and in the cool 
Atlantic Ocean. At Kew it has proved hardy, planted 
against a wall in a very sheltered place, but has never 
flowered. 
Duscr. A shrub four to six feet high, or small tree, 
branches terete, bark dark brown, warted. Leaves two to 
four and a half inches long, elliptic or oblong-ovate, or sub- 
obovate, obtuse or subacute; base rounded or cuneate ; mar- 
gin loosely crenate-toothed, especially above the middle, some- 
- times quite entire; tips of the teeth glandular ; nerves three 
or four on each side the midrib, strong, arched ; upper surface 
bright green, under paler with a few obscure glands or none ; 
petiole quarter to half an inch long, stout, rough. Cymes 
terminal and in the upper axils, short, few-flowered, shortly 
peduncled, suberect, pubescent, nearly globose in the cul- 
tivated specimens ; bracts at the base none, those at the forks 
small, ovate-lanceolate, herbaceous. Flowers very shortly 
pedicelled. Calyx-teeth small, rounded, ovate.. Corolla white, 
with a faint rose tinge, tube one-third to half an inch long, 
cylindric; lobes erecto-patent, rounded, concave. Anthers 
oa Preting 2 Stigma on a short stout style, 3-lobed.— 
Fig. 1, Flower; 2, calyx, ovary, style and stigma :—magnified. 
