cultivation by Messrs. Veitch and Sons, and seems to be 
perfectly hardy. The specimen here figured was kindly 
sent for this work by R. Milne Redhead, Esq., F.L.S. of 
Holden Clough, Clitheroe (author of a paper on the Botany 
of Sinai in the Linnean Journal) in September last, with 
the observation that the stamens persist after the petals 
have fallen away, and are in themselves very ornamental. 
Descr. A small glabrous tree or large shrub, attaining 
ten feet in height, much branched ; branches and branchlets 
stout. Leaves crowded towards the ends of the branchlets, 
three to six inches long, pinnate; petiole short and 
rachis slender ; leaflets in one to five pairs; lateral one and 
a half to two inches long, sessile by a rounded base, 
oblong-lanceolate, acute, crenate-toothed or -serrate, dark 
shiny green above, paler beneath; terminal leaflet rather 
longer, petiolulate; stipules half an inch long, oblong-— 
lanceolate, deciduous. lowers shortly stoutly peduncled, 
two and a half to three inches in diameter, pure white. - 
Sepals very small, broadly oblong, obtuse, coriaceous, 
green, deciduous. Petals orbicular-obovate, concave. 
Stamens very numerous, inserted in many series on a torus 
that supports the ovary; filaments capillary, shorter than 
the petals; anthers very small, orbicular. Ovary oblong, 
pubescent, many-celled; styles very many, filiform, 
longer than the ovary; stigmas minute. Capsule oblong, 
two-thirds of an inch long.—J. D. H. 
Figs. 1 and 2, Stamen 
! 8; 3, disk and 54 ical section of ovary :— 
all enlarged. , disk and ovary; 4, vertical sectio: 7: 
