of Camellia and Ilex, flowering in spring and ripening its 

 fruit in summer. The bark and foliage are very aromatic. 

 The specimen figured was sent to Kew by Messrs. Veitch, 

 who flowered it at Combe Wood Nursery in April of the 

 present year. The fruit represented is from a Herbarium 

 specimen. 



A form with very different leaves, oblanceolate with 

 long points, was separated under the name of T. longi- 

 folium, and published by Maximovicz in the " Index 

 Seminum Hort. Petrop. in 1805, p. 34," but it was sub- 

 sequently reduced by the same author (Melanges Biolog. 

 pt. viii. p. 371) to a variety of aralioides. 



Descr. — An evergreen, large shrub or small tree, twelve 

 to sixteen feet high, glabrous all over, with rather stout 

 stems ; bark aromatic ; branches terete, green with brown 

 annular scars. Leaves three to four inches long, long- 

 petioled, ovate or oblong-ovate, obtusely acuminate, cre- 

 nate-serrate, coriaceous, bright green and shining above ; 

 petiole one to one and a half inches long. Flowers in 

 erect terminal sessile racemes, long pedicelled ; rachis of 

 raceme stout, green ; pedicels one to one and a half inches 

 long, green, horizontally spreading ; bracts linear, cadu- 

 cous ; bracteoles on the pedicels, setaceous. Flowers three- 

 quarters of an inch diam. across the stamens. Calyx-tube 

 depressed hemispheric, limb 0. Petals 0. Stamens verymany 

 in a whorl on the mouth of the calyx-tube, filaments slender 

 all ot one length, spreading and recurved ; anthers adnate, 

 erect oblong, obtuse. Carpels about ten, connate in a 

 Whorl, the bases confluent with the calyx-tube ; styles short, 

 recurved, stigmas oblong. Fruit one-half to three-quarters 

 or an men m diam., formed of the calyx and about ten 

 rather fleshy follicular few-seeded carpels.—/. D. H. 



3 tJwIt fL t * s tamens recurved; 2, anther before dehiscence; 



ditto "after dli ° f * nther bel ^ dehiscence; 4, longitudinal view of 



6 fruitefaimi H D ? ; - 5, Vertl ? al Seutiou thvo ^ a car pel :-all enlarged. 

 o, traits trom a Herbarium specimen, of the nat. size. 



