namely, to Pitcairn's laid. (23° S. and 150° W.), and 

 Mangaia Isld. 22° S. 158° W. It varies a good deal in 

 the hairiness of its leaves, in the Sandwich Islands 

 especially, from nearly glabrous to silkily tomentose 

 beneath, and in the breadth of the leaflets. The genus 

 is closely allied to Crataegus and Cotoneaster ; and in 

 the uni-ovnlate cells of the ovary to Amelanchier. All 

 the other species (about seven) are Andean, and have 

 simple leaves. 



A plant of Osieomeles antliyllidifolia was received in 

 March, 1892, at Kew, from the Jardin des Plantes, Paris, 

 where it was raised from seed sent by the Abbe Delavay 

 from Yunnan. It flowered in a cool greenhouse in May 

 of the following year, and, as Mr. Watson informs me, was 

 transferred to the open border against a south-east wall 

 in October of the same year, where it grows freely, fruits, 

 and forms an elegant evergreen (not deciduous, as de- 

 scribed in Floras) little shrub. Hitherto it has proved 

 perfectly hardy, carrying healthy evergreen leaves, not- 

 withstanding the frosts (22° in one night) of last 

 December. 



Bescr. — A small evergreen bush, five or six ft. high, 

 much branched ; branches stout, clothed with a dark 

 brownish-black bark, branchlets, leaves, pedicels and calyx 

 loosely softly hairy. Leaves two to four inches long, by 

 i~i inch broad, spreading and recurved, shortly petioled, 

 impari-pinnate ; pinnules in pairs, £-£ in. long, opposite 

 and alternate, elliptic, apiculate, yellowish green, paler be- 

 neath ; rachis trigonous, channelled on the upper surface ; 

 stipules small, subulate, deciduous. Floivers in short, 

 subsessile, terminal corymbs, shortly pedicelled, about two- 

 thirds of an inch in diameter, white ; bracteoles minute. 

 Calyx-tube broadly turbinate ; lobes ovate, subacute, per- 

 sistent. Petals obovate-oblong, twice as long as the sepals, 

 concave. Stamens very many, shorter than the petals ; 

 anthers small, didymous, yellow. Ovary 5-celled ; styles 

 hairy, stigmas small, oblique. Drupe globose, crowned 

 by the calyx, dark red ; pyrenes five, crustaceous, dimidiate- 

 obovate.— J. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Portion of leaf ; 2, vertical section of flower ; 3, stamen ; 4, fruiting 

 corymb of the natural size ; 5, pyrene :— All but fig. 4 enlarged. 



