seven thousand feet in Central Japan. Maximovicz con- 
sidered that its nearest ally is his S. mongolica, which differs 
in having triple-nerved leaves. 
The drawing was made from a specimen that flowered 
in the Arboretum of the Royal Gardens, Kew, in June, 
1894. 
Descr.—A small glabrous shrub; bark on the main 
branches dark brown, young branches bright.red. Leaves 
one half to one inch long and broad, orbicular, or very 
broadly obovate, with a few broad crenatures on the rounded 
tip ; petiole very short, nerves slender, spreading. Corymbs 
two inches in diameter, subsessile, hemispherical ; dense- 
fld.; branches with small green foliaceons bracts concealed 
by the very shortly pedicelled flowers, which vary from a 
quarter to nearly half an inch in diameter. Calyz-lobes 
triangular-oyate, hairy within. Petals orbicular, truncate, 
so closely overlapping as to resemble a cupular broadly 
5-lobed corolla, white. Disk a crenate ring at the mouth 
of the calyx-tube. Stamens shorter than the petals. 
Carpels dorsally woolly about the middle; styles rather | 
long.— J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Calyx disk and carpels ; 2, petal ; 8, stamens; 4, section of calyx, 
showing carpels :—All enlarged. 
