Tas. 6779. 
CORYLOPSIS narmaayana. 
Native of the Eastern Himalaya and Khasia Mountains. 
Nat. Ord. HaMAMELIDEZ. ee 
Genus Corytopsis, Sieb. et Zucc. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 667.) 
Corytopsis himalayana ; frutex ramis lenticellatis, ramulis petiolis pedunculisque 
 stellato-pubescentibus, foliis late ovatis v. ovato-cordatis acuminatis serratis 
supra olahels rugosis subtus sericeo-pilosis v. tomentosis, racemis brevibus 
sericeis densifloris pendulis, petalis spathulatis. : 
C. himalayana, Griff. in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. vol. xxiii. p. 64; et icon (C. grata), 
Hook. f. et Thomson in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. ii. p. 85; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. 
Ind. vol. ii. p. 427. 
Hamametina, Griff. Ic. Plant. Asiat. t. 633. 
A singularly delicate and graceful shrub, closely allied to 
Hamamelis, and like it, flowering in early spring or late 
winter (February), and unfolding its beautiful foliage in 
June. It belongs to a small genus confined to Eastern 
Asia, of which four species are known, C. spicata, Sieb. and 
Zuce., from Japan, figured in this work at Plate 5458; C. 
pauciflora, Sieb. and Zuce., also from Japan ; C. multiflora, 
Hance, from China; and the present plant, which is very 
near indeed to the Chinese one, differing in the much 
narrower petals. The flowers of both C. spicata and that 
figured here have a primrose smell. . 
CO. himalayana is a native of the eastermost mountains of 
India, having been discovered by Griffith in Bhotan, north 
of the Assam valley, at elevations of 5000 to 8000 feet 5 
and afterwards found by himself and others in the Khasia 
Mountains, south of the Assam valley, at lower elevations, 
of 4000 to 6000 feet. There I have seen it forming a 
small tree twenty feet high, or a nut-like bush with leaves 
sometimes six inches long and nearly as much in diameter. 
It was introduced into English gardens by Dr. King, who 
sent seeds to Kew in 1879, and we have also received 
plants from Messrs. Veitch. : 
Descr. A shrub or small tree, of hazel-like habit and 
OCTOBER Ist, 1884, 
