a previously unpublished name. According to the same 
authority, the plant had been for some years previously (to 
1879) in cultivation on the Continent, it having seeded in 
_ 1878 with Messrs. Thibaut and Keteleer, at Sceaux. 
The specimen from which the plate here given was taken 
was exhibited at a meeting of the Royal Horticultural 
Society by Messrs. Veitch, to whom I am indebted for the 
opportunity of figuring it. The plant flowers in July, is 
quite hardy, and a valuable acquisition to the Fruticetum 
Britannicum. 
Dezscr. A dense shrub; branchlets and leaves glabrous. 
Leavestwotothree inches long, elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, 
finely serrate, many-nerved, yellowish-green above, paler 
beneath ; petiole a quarter to one-third of an inch 
long. Flowers axillary, solitary, globose, about two inches 
in diameter, white, pedicel half an inch long; bracts 
close under the calyx, ovate, acute, shorter than the sepals. 
Sepals orbicular, obovate, obtuse, serrulate, coriaceous, 
closely imbricate, densely silky. Petals orbicular, very 
concave, margin irregularly crenate, back densely silky 
within the margin. Stamens very many, incurved ; anthers 
small, orbicular, orange-coloured. Ovary oblong, densely 
silkily villous, narrowed into a long, erect, columnar 
glabrous style, formed of the connate styles of the five- 
celled ovary; stigmas short, recurved. Capsule one inch 
long, turgidly ovoid; valves beaked, margins recurved after 
dehiscence.—J. D. H. : 
Figs. 1 and 2, Front and back views of anthers; 3, ovary; 4 transverse 
section of do.; 5, ovule :—all enlarged. 
