chief difference between the Japanese and the Indian 
species is the well-marked venation of the leaves of the 
latter; the nerves of C. japonica being, in the dried leaf, 
very obscure. Both vary in the size of the flowers and 
leaves, and in the form of the latter. The large flowered 
form would appear, from the specimen in the Kew Her- 
barium from all three localities, to be the more common 
of the two. 
OC. Fortunei agrees with C. ochnacea and grandiflora in 
the nervation of the leaves, and with the last in the size 
of the flowers; but differs from both in the longer, 
narrower leaves, and their thinner texture—characters 
that may be due to cultivation; and if the Himalayan 
Species were to prove to be also Chinese (as are so many 
Himalayan shrubs), it would strengthen the suggestion I 
have thrown out, that C. Fortunei is of Chinese, and not 
Japanese origin. 
The above notes appeared in the Gardener's Chronicle 
in January last, and I have nothing to add to them. The 
species must still be regarded as an unstable one, waiting 
further evidence. The specimen here figured was kindly 
forwarded by T. Acton, Esq., J.P., of Kilmacurragh, 
Rathdrum, County Wicklow, in September, 1894. 
Descy.—A glabrous, erect, much-branched — shrub. 
Branches stout, bark brown. Leaves four to six inches 
long, elliptic- or linear-lanceolate, subobtuse, narrowed 
at both ends, bright green, variegated with golden-yellow 
and scarlet towards the margins; midrib and nerves 
slender. Flowers one half to two-thirds of an inch in 
diameter, solitary or fascicled in the axils of the leaves, 
or on nodes of the branches; pedicels half an inch long, 
stout, green and red. Calyx small, 5-lobed; lobes shortly 
oblong, ciliolate, red brown. Petals a fourth to a third 
of an inch long, oblong, obtuse, pale yellow, margins in- 
curved. Stamens fifteen to twenty, of unequal length; 
anthers adnate to the filaments, oblong, hairy; connective 
shortly produced. Ovary shortly, stoutly stipitate, broadly 
ovoid, 2-celled ; style erect, tip 2-fid; ovules many in each 
cell.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower with 
the petals removed ; 2, petal and st mens: 3, anther; 
4 ovary; 5, vertical, a fi , petal and sta ; 
nd 6, transverse section of do. :—Ali enlarged. 
