plants or seeds had been sent from that country. The 
species had, however, been discovered in Bhotan by Griffith 
some years earlier, and fruiting specimens collected by him 
are in the Kew Herbarium. I found it frequently at 
elevations of 7-10,000 feet in the interior of Sikkim, as a 
small stoutly branching tree, twenty to thirty feet high, 
flowering in June and July, and producing fruit of which 
I made an agreeable stew. The Kew tree flowers in May, 
and fruits in September. 
Descr.—A small gnarled tree, bark brown, young shoots 
leaves beneath (and above in a young state) and calyx 
more or less woolly. Leaves three to five inches long, 
ovate, acuminate, serrulate ; petiole much shorter than the 
blade; stipules subulate. Flowers corymbose, an inch in 
diameter ; buds rose-colrd. ; pedicels one and a half to two 
inches long, very slender. Calyz-tube ellipsoid; lobes 
lanceolate, recurved, deciduous. Petals orbicular, white, 
claw very short, tomentose. Stamens very many. Styles 
slender, connate below, glabrous. Fruit two-thirds of an 
inch diameter, broadly subglobosely pyriform, dark-red, 
speckled with white.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Calyx and stamens; 2, petal :—Both enlarged. 
