Under Plate 5221 such differences as were then observed 
between 1’. Fortwnei and ewcelsus are clearly given. An 
examination of numerous specimens in the Temperate House 
at Kew and in the open air of the Fortunei shows these to 
be fallacious, though the extreme forms, of leaves with 
straight and with drooping tips, are discernible. A more re- 
markable character of Fortunei is the great length of the 
petiole of some specimens ; this organ, which is rarely much 
_ longer than the diameter of the blade, is in some specimens, 
growing both in and out of doors, twice or even thrice that 
length. Its greater length is attributed at Kew to the 
plant having been grown indoors.—J. D. H. 
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Fig. 1, Base of lamina of leaf and ligule; 2, back, and 3, front view of 
flower; 4 and 5, stamens; 6, carpels; 7, the same dehiscing when still young; 
8, transverse section of the same, showing the ovule; 9, drupe dried (from the 
Kew Museum); 10 and 11, ventral and dorsal view of the same:—all but jigs. 
1 and 9 enlarged. 
