Gardens Kew, in 1902. It is, no doubt, a mountain 

 plant in China, being hardy in England. 



Descr — A large bush or small tree, sometimes thirty 

 feet high, with straggling branches and nearly black bark. 

 Leaves four to five inches long, shortly petioled, orbicular- 

 obovate or -oblong, cuspidate, toothed, scaberulous above, 

 stellate-tomentose beneath, base obliquely cordate, basal 

 lobes more or less unequal, sinus acute, nerves eight or 

 ten pair; stipules three-fourths of an inch loner, linear- 

 lanceolate, externally tomentose, glabrous within, cadu- 

 cous. 1< loiver-heads sessile or very shortly peduncled 

 uaiyx Lomentose ; lobes broadly ovate, glabrous, purplish- 

 red within, about a tenth of an inch long. Petals a 

 third ot an inch long by less than one-tenth of an inch 

 broad, golden-yellow. Filaments short, stout. Ovary 

 hirsute. — ,/. B. H. 



T.is^if • 3' ?t°n3^ - 2 ' S f/ Cti °7 n ° f , ditt °' Sh ° win " ba8es of P etal9 > stamens, and 

 piani , 6, stamen : — all enlarged. 



