Tas. 7045. 
STUARTIA PsEUDO-CAMELLIA. 
Native of Japan. 
Nat. Ord. TERNSTREMIACER.—Tribe GoRDONIER. 
Genus Sruartia, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 185.) 
Sruartia Pseudo-camellia ; ramulis foliisque glabris, foliis breviter petiolatis 
elliptico-lanceolatis acutis v. acuminatis subserratis, floribus amplis sub- 
globosis, sepalis obovato-rotundatis serrulatis ciliatis extus dense sericeo- 
lanuginosis, petalis late cuneato-obovatis concavis crenato-dentatis dorso 
marginibus exceptis sericeo-lanuginosis, ovario sericeo-tormentoso, stylis 
elongatis glabris alte connatis, capsula late ovoideo-ellipsoidea, valvis 
acuminatis. 
S. Pseudo-camellia, Maximov. in Bull. Acad. Petersh. 1867, 429; Mel. Biolog. 
vol, vi. p. 201 (1867); Franchet & Savat. Pnum. Plant. Jap. vol. i. p. 60; 
Gard. Chron. 1888, vol. i. 187, £.22; Ito Pl. Bot. Gard. Koishik. vol. ii. 
t. 23. 
8. grandiflora, Siebold, ex Briot in Rev. Horticole, 1879, p. 430, cum Ie. 
A congener of the North Carolinan Stwartia pentagyna, 
L’Herit (Tab. nost. 3918), an old favourite in shrubberies and 
gardens, but which, like so many other beautiful deciduous- 
leaved North American trees and shrubs, has been so 
entirely neglected of late years, that its name is not to be 
found in Decaisne and Naudin’s “ Handbook of Hardy 
Trees, Shrubs, and Herbaceous Plants.’”’ A reference to the 
plate of the American plant cited above shows that the 
name of grandiflora adopted by the “ Revue Horticole”’ was 
not well chosen for the Japanese species, for the flowers 
of its American congener are almost twice as large. 
The genus Stuartia possesses an interest in being one of | 
_ those that prove incontestably the close relationship between 
the Floras of Japan and of the Eastern United States, there 
being two species in each of those countries. For the 
synonym 8. grandiflora (published twelve years after that 
of Maximovicz) I can find no authority but the “ Revue 
Horticole,” which attributes it to Siebold, but gives 
neither date nor place of publication ; it is hence probably 
Mazcu Ist, 1889. 
