A plant of N. Torreyi was received by the Royal 
Gardens, Kew, in 1897, from Professor Sargent, of the 
Arnold Arboretum, near Boston, which now forms a bush 
about three feet high, which flowered in the Arboretum 
in July, 1900. 
Deser.—A robust shrub; bark black. Leaves one to one 
and a half inches long, orbicular-ovate, shallowly three- 
lobed, lobes and tip rounded, crenate, base deeply cordate, 
sinus narrow, sparsely stellately pubescent, dark green 
above, with deeply impressed nerves, pale beneath, with 
prominent nerves; petiole much shorter than the blade. 
Stipules linear, nearly as long as the petiole. Flowers — 
about half an inch broad, in dense, terminal, shortly 
peduncled corymbs, one to one and a half inches 
in diameter, shortly pedicelled, white. Calyx stellately 
tomentose ; tube hemispheric ; lobes ovate, obtuse, glabrous 
within. Petals orbicular, as long as the calyx-lobes. 
Stamens about thirty, triseriate. Carpels two, on a short 
stipes, turgidly oblong, united at their ventral sutures 60 
above the middle, narrowed into filiform styles, mature 
dehiscing. Seeds not numerous, obovoid, pale, smooth, 
polished.—J, D. H, ° 
Fig. 1, unexpanded flower; 2, section of calyx with stamens and carpels j 
3, ripe carpels; 4, stellate hairs of the flowers; 5, seeds :—all enlarged. 
Postscript.—As this sheet was passing throngh the press I received from 
my friend Mr. B. L. Robinson, Keene af ie Ont Fechaciam, Harvat 
University, U.S.A., to whom I had appliel for information as to the specific 
validity of WV. malvacea as distinct from N. Torreyi, a-note to the effect, that 
Mcsty the distinctions between them do not sound very strong, there seems 
little difficulty in distinguishing them.” The characters of each which 
he gives me are :— 
N. malvacea; carpels 2-3, leaves finely pubescent upon both surfaces, 
usually becoming tawny in drying. 
- dV. Torreyi ; carpels 1-2, leaves smaller, 
adds that the two forms have a pretty definite range, IV, malvacea, from 
Oregon and tke northern Rocky Mountains, Washington, and Idaho, to Utah, 
Nevada and Western Texas; N. Torreyi from S. Dakota Wyoming, and wes 
Rocky Mountains of Colorado, to New Mexico, : 
From this it may be concluded that the fi 
N. malvacea, though the leaves are 
puberulous with deciduous hairs be 
essentially glabrous. Mr. Robinson 
gure here given is of the form 
glabrous ahove and only very sparsely 
neath.—J.D.H., January 25th, 1901. 
