we now know to be a small dry capsule, concealed within 
the scarious accrescent bracteoles, as “said to be a red 
edible berry.” Perfect seeds were sent to England in 
December, 1904, by Mr. E. H. Wilson to Messrs. J. Veitch 
& Sons, but none exist in the herbarium at Kew. These 
seeds, gathered at altitudes of from 6,500 to 8,000 ft. above 
sea level in Western China, were sown by Messrs. Veitch 
early in 1905, and produced plants from one of which came 
the material from which our figure has been prepared. 
Three other species of Dipelta have been described; 
D. yunnanensis, Franchet, D. elegans, Batalin, and D. ven- 
tricosa, Hemsl., all from Western China. In the herbarium 
at Kew there are specimens in fruit of yet another form 
discovered by Mr. A. Henry in Hupeh in Central China. 
This is noted by Henry as possibly a new species; it is a 
tree 10-40 ft. high, and has larger and much broader leaves 
than D. floribunda, to which it is most nearly allied, and of 
which the late Professor Batalin considered it to be a state. 
This doubtful form, like D. yunnanensis and D. elegans, 1s 
not yet in cultivation, but the herbarium material available 
does not indicate that any one of the three is superior as an 
ornamental plant to the species now figured, or to D. ven- 
tricosa, figured at t. 8294 of this work. In the nursery of 
Messrs. Veitch at Coombe Wood, D. floribunda forms a tree- 
growing bush of rounded habit about 4 ft. high, bearing in 
general appearance a resemblance to one of the Bush 
Honeysuckles, or to a Diervilla. It requires a good, loamy 
soil and can be increased by cuttings. It is quite hardy, 
and flowers during May. 4 : : 
Dersorwrion.—Shrub often 10-16 ft. high, in habit 
recalling some of the Diervillas; branches long, rather 
slender, at first puberulous: internodes mostly shorter than 
the leaves, Leaves opposite, without stipules, short-petioled, 
thin, deciduous, lanceolate, ovate-lanceolate, or ovate, often 
2-4 in. long, acute and acuminate, somewhat cuneate or 
rounded at the base, entire, at first puberulous but soon 
glabrescent, rather paler on the underside; main nerves 
about 4 on each side, somewhat hairy at first, the fine 
reticulate venation translucent ; petioles 2-3 lin. long. 
Flowers clustered in the leaf-axils ; peduncles short, usually 
2-leaved and 3-6-flowered ; pedicels slender, 5-8 lin. long, 
