seed. He describes the petals as bluish white, associated 

 with conspicuous', yellow stamens. 



With regard to its introduction into European gardens, 

 the date usually given is 1888 ; but there is a specimen 

 in the Kew Herbarium, from the garden of Mr. Max 

 Leichtlin, of Baden Baden, received through Mr. Gum- 

 bleton, of Cork, in 18S2. As will be seen, all our references 

 to horticultural publications are of a later date. Mr. 

 Ed. Andre, writing in 1899, says "that it succeeds well 

 at Lacroix, in Touraine, where it was covered with flowers 

 every spring." It has been in cultivation at Kew for 

 some years, and it flowered last May, when the drawing 

 was made. The plant is growing against the south wall 

 of the Orchid House, and is bearing a few more flowers 

 now in mid-October. 



There is also a second plant in the Arboretum, four to 

 five feet high and three feet through] but it bas, I believe, 

 never flowered, and has much deteriorated during the two 

 last wet seasons. 



Deter. — An erect, densely branched shrub, three to six 

 feet high, with very rigid branches and striated bark. 

 Leaves usually clustered on short, lateral branchlets, 

 opposite, nearly sessile, rigidly coriaceous, linear-lanceolate, 

 the largest about an inch long, acute, three-nerved, scabrid 

 above, silky beneath. Flowers white, with yellow anthers, 

 one and a quarter to one and a half inches in diameter, soli- 

 tary, or in threes, on the lateral branchlets ; pedicels very 

 short, slightly hairy, bractless. Calyx pubescent, deeply four- 

 lobed ; segments ovate, somewhat obtuse, valvate. Petals 

 four, perigynous, imbricate, slightly hairy on the outside 

 and ciliolate, ovate- spathulate, distinctly clawed, veined, 

 about nine lines long, deciduous. Stamens eight, erect ; 

 filaments petaloid, with two narrow, acute, apical lobes 

 overtopping the anther. Ovary glabrous at the top, four- 

 celled; cells containing many ovules; style hairy. Cap- 

 sule almost wholly, superior, crustaceous, or almost woody, 

 oblong-ovoid or conical, five to seven lines long, septici- 

 dally four-valved ; valves mucronate ; cells several-seeded. 

 Seeds oblong, with a loose-celled, thick testa, winged 

 dorsally and at the base ; embryo small, straight, in the 

 centre of the albumen. — W. B. H. 



Fig. 1, flower from which the petals have been removed; 2, ventral view of 

 a stamen ; 3, dorsal view of the same ; 4, pistil : — all enlarged. 



