M. Watsoni was purchased for the Royal Gardens from 

 the Japanese Court of the Paris Exhibition in 1889, and 

 flowered in the open ground at Kew in June of last year. 

 The flowers had a powerful odour of Calycanthus. 



Descr. A small tree, flowering and leafing at the same 

 time ; branchlets smooth, terete, annulate. Leaves four to 

 seven inches long by two to three and a half broad, elliptic- 

 or obovate-oblong or orbicular-obovate, obtuse or cuspidate, 

 somewhat waved, deep green above with yellow margins and 

 nerves, paler beneath and when young clothed with fine 

 silky appressed hairs, base rounded or cuneate ; nerves 

 ten to fifteen pairs, arched, deeply impressed above ; petiole 

 one half to one inch long. Flowers solitary, terminal, 

 very shortly peduncled, five to six inches in diameter. 

 Sepals oblong or linear-oblong, subacute or obtuse, very 

 concave, rose-coloured or pale-purplish on the back, at 

 length deflexed. Petals broadly obovate, obtuse, unequal, 

 very concave, spreading, cream-coloured. Stamens very 

 numerous, in many series, recurved, forming a broad ring 

 round and incumbent on the petals, about one-third of the 

 latter in length ; filaments blood-red, as long as the linear, 

 dirty reddish-yellow anthers. Pistil an oblong mass of 

 closely imbricating lanceolate carpels narrowed into slightly 

 recurved styles, and terminating a very stout columnar 

 stipes; stigmas linear, decurrent on the inner face of the 

 style.— J. D. H. 



Figs. 1 and 2, front and back view of stare ens; 3, style of carpel :— both 

 enlarged. 



