Tas, 7979. ; 
LOROPETALUM cutnensz, 
Native of India and China. 
Nat. Ord. HaAMAMELIDACER. : 
Genus Lonoretatum, R. Br.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. i. p. 668.) 
LoropetaLum chinense; frutex usque ad 8-10 ped. altus, dam juvenis copiose 
florens, dense ramosus, ramis gracilibus foliisque primum stellato- 
ubescentibus, foliis alternis breviter petiolatis subcoriaceis persistenti- 
te ovato-lanceolatis 1-2 poll. longis (in speciminibas silvestribus sepius 
multo minoribus circumscriptione variabilibus) basi leviter obliquis 
apiculato-acutis ciliolatis, stipulis parvis cito deciduis, floribus candidis 
viridi-albis vel pallide luteis circiter 1 poll. diametro in ramulis brevibus 
fasciculatis subsessilibus, calycis dense pubescentis lobis 4 brevibus ovatis 
obtusis, petalis 4 linearibus 9-12 lin. longis, staminibus 4 cum glandulis 
totidem alternantibus filamentis brevissimis connectivo apice rostrato, 
ovario 2-loculari lo¢ulis uniovulatis stylis brevissimis, capsula lignosa 
dense pubescente semisupera subglobosa loculicide bivalva, seminibus 
oblongis circiter 2 lin. longis albis levibus. 
L. chinense, R. Br. in Abel’s Narrative of a Journey in China (1818), p. 375, 
in nota. D. Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soe. vol. xxiii. p. 459. Hemsl. in | 
Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. vol. xxiii. p. 290. WN. FE. Brown in Gard. Chron. 
1880, vol. ii. p. 620; 1883, vol. i. p. 152, f. 23; 1894, vol. i. p. 342, f. 42. 
- -The Garden, vol. lxv. p. 255, cum figura. Journ. of Hortic., series 3, vol. 
xviii. p. 235, £.39. De Wildem. Ic. Hort. Then. vol. ii. t. 58. 
Hamamelis chinensis, 2. Br. loc. sup. cit., cum icone nigra, 
Robert Brown published this shrub as a species of 
Hamamelis, but at the same time he pointed out in a note 
‘some essential differences, and suggested that it might be 
raised to generic rank, under the name of Loropetalwm. 
This was adopted by Prof. D. Oliver in the place cited 
above, and he subsequently (1883) reduced (Hook. Ic. Pl. 
t. 1417) Bentham’s Tetrathyrium subcordatum, published — 
in 1861, to the same genus. 
_ Both are natives of China, and Loropetalum chinense is 
common, ranging from Formosa, Chekiang and Kwang- 
tung to Hupeh and Yunnan, and extending to the Khasia 
Hills in Hastern India. It was introduced into this 
country, in 1880, by the late Mr. Maries for Messrs. James 
Veitch & Sons. In 1894 this firm was awarded a First 
Class Certificate for it; yet its merits were not at once 
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