Tab. 7593. 

 STBPHANANDRA Tanaile. 



Native of Japan. 



Nat. Ord. Kosace^e. — Tribe SpiejeejE. 



Genus Stephanandra, Sieb. & Zucc. ; (Benth. & Hook. /. Gen. Plant, vol. i. 



p. 612.) 



Stephanandra Tanakse ; suffrutex 3-pedalis, gracilis, cortice brunneo, foliis 

 breve petiolatis triangulari-ovatis 3-lobis, lobis lateovatis acuminatis lobu- 

 lars serratisque lateralibus parvis, supra glaberrimis subtus secus nervos 

 utrinque 7-9-rectos puberulis, stipulis ovatis acutis calloso-dentatis viri- 

 dibus deciduis, floribus in paniculas terminales pendulas dispositis, 

 bracteis ovatis acumiuatis, bracteolis pedicellos fequantibus persistentibus, 

 floribus parvis, calycis flavi lobis ovatis acutis pubescentibus, petalis 

 calyci asquilongis ovato-oblongis albis, disco puberulo, staminibus 15-20, 

 filamentis brevibus, ovario oblongo pubescente, stylo breviusculo, stigmate 

 capitato, capsula tomentella Crustacea disperma calyce fere immutato 

 inclusa, seminibus ellipsoideis politis. 



S, Tanakae, Franch. & Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. vol. ii. p. 332. Maximov. Adnot. 



Spirseac. 114 Gartenfl. 1896, t. 1431 (folia.). 

 Neilua Tanakas, Franch. & Sav. I. c. vol. i. p. 121. 



The genus Stephanandra consists of four species, three 

 Japanese and a Chinese, and is very closely allied to the 

 Himalayan and North American genus Neillia, Don., 

 differing in the monocarpellary ovary, with two pendulous 

 ovules, and a capsule which ruptures at the base, and con- 

 tains only two seeds. Maximovicz describes the style as 

 at length lateral, but it is terminal in 8. Tanakse. 



Stephanandra Tanakse is a native of the Hakone Mts., 

 in the Sagarai Province of Japan, and was first collected 

 in the flanks of Fudzi-yama, where it forms a graceful 

 bush. Seeds of it were sent to the Royal Gardens, 

 Kew, by the Botanical Garden of the Imperial University of 

 Tokio in 1893. The accompanying figure was made from 

 a plant which flowered in June, 1897, in the Arboretum. 



Descr. — A slender, nearly glabrous branching under- 

 shrub, about three feet high ; bark of branches brown. 

 Leaves two inches long and broad, alternate, triangular- 

 ovate, 3-lobed, membranous, bright green, colouring 

 golden-yellow in autumn ; lobes broadly ovate, acuminate, 



Mat 1st, 1898. 



