glabrum, Hook. (t. 2921), and L. coriaceum, Carr. (t 7519). 
‘he first is especially interesting, on account of its being 
one of the two plants on which the Insect white wax of 
the Chinese is deposited. Frawinus sinensis is the other. 
See Kew Bulletin, 1898, p. 85. 
Descr.—An evergreen, diffusely branched shrub, or 
small tree. Branchlets slender, densely and minutely 
puberulous. Leaves shortly petiolate, thick, coriaceous, 
almost quite glabrous, orbicular, elliptic, broadly ovate or 
obovate, a half to one inch long, a quarter to two-thirds of 
an inch broad, entire, shining and dark green above, paler 
beneath, rounded, obtuse, or acute, often minutely mucro- © 
nate, somewhat revolute on the margins. Flowers shortly 
pedicellate, arranged in terminal panicles, the largest about 
three inches and a half long and three inches broad at the 
base. Calyx very small, cup-shaped, often obscurely 5- 
toothed, glabrous. Corolla white; tube funnel-shaped, one- 
twelfth to one-sixth of an inch long; lobes ovate-oblong, 
thick, subacute, slightly shorter than the tube. Style very 
shortly exserted. Fruit at first globose, obovoid when 
mature, about one-third of an inch long.—S. A. Sxan. 
Fig. 1, portion of branch; 2, flower; 3, vertical section of calyx showing 
ovary and style; 4 and 5, anthers :—all much enlarged. ee 
