Tas, 7434, 
CLEYERA Forrunst. 
Native of Japan? 
Nat. Ord. TeRNsTREMIACE®.—Tribe TERNSTREMIER. 
Genus Crrrera, DO. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 183.) 
Ciryera Fortune ; foliis 4-6-pollicaribus elliptico-v. lineari-oblongis obtusins- 
culis utrinque sensim angustatis lucidis, costa nervisque prominulis, 
pedicellis confertis }-pollicaribus, floribus % poll. latis, petalis primulinis 
sepalis obtusis ciliolatis triplo longioribus, staminibus 15-20 filamentis 
inzequilongis, antheris oblongis pilosis. 
C. Fortunei, Hook. f. in Gard. Chron. 1895, vol. i. p. 10. 
C. japonica, foliis variegatis, Hort. 
Euryz Sp. Gard. Chron, 1861, p. 735. 
E. latifolia variegata, Verschaff. in Expos. Gand 1882, ex Bullet. Féd. Soc. 
Hort. de Belgique (1886), p. 394. 
The first account of this handsome shrub is contained 
in the Gardener’s Chronicle for 1861, where it is alluded 
to as a new Japanese plant, introduced by Fortune, and 
exhibited by Mr. Standish at a meeting of the Royal 
Horticultural Society, as a broad-leaved Hurya. It has been 
in cultivation ever since, but never having been observed 
in a flowering state till comparatively recently, its genus has 
remained doubtful. That it is a Cleyera is evident; but 
the Asiatic species of that genus are so very closely allied, 
that the establishing a new one, on what is no doubt a 
garden variety, and probably due to Japanese or Chinese 
skill, is a hazardous proceeding. I say Japanese or 
Chinese, for Fortune sent variegated-leaved shrubs from 
both countries, and the absence of any specimen of (. 
Fortunei in the rich Herbarium of Japanese plants at Kew 
is suspicious. : 
There are three described Cleyeras; two Indian (per- 
haps varieties of one) C. ochnacea, DC., and 0. grandiflora, 
Hook. f. & Thoms.; the third is C. japonica,* Sieber & 
Zucc., a native of Japan, China, and Formosa, which has by 
some botanists been regarded as a form of C. ochnacea. The 
* Which must not be confounded with Cleyera japonica, Thunb., a ies : 
of Ternstremia. _— 
SepTEMBER Ist, 1895. 
