oversight no doubt, describes the flowers as obscurely 
bracteate, but the bracts are very large, as shown in the 
figure; they are, however, very caducous. 
Comanthosphace japonica was raised at the Royal 
Gardens from seeds sent by Professor Sargent, Di: ector 
of the Harvard Arboretum, Massachusetts, in 1893: plants 
raised from which flowered in the open air in the Kew 
Arboretum in October, 1894. 
Descr.—A small undershrub, with hoary branches and 
inflorescence. Stem 4-gonous. Leaves three to five inches 
‘long, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, serrate, dark green and 
subrugosely reticulated above with sunk nerves, pale 
beneath with raised nerves, base narrowed into a short 
stout channelled petiole. Spikes terminal, strict, erect, 
very shortly peduncled ; rachis stout ; flowers very shortly 
pedicelled in small bracteate verticillasters, about half an 
inch long; bracts half an inch long, orbicular or ovate, con- 
cave, beaked, very caducous, pale brown. Calyx tubular- 
campanulate, 5-toothed, green. Corolla very small, yellow, 
tube cylindric, girt within with a pubescent ring, lobes 
small; upper lip obtusely 4-toothed; lower projecting, 
orbicular, concave. Stamens 4, filaments very long, far 
exserted, subequal, glabrous; anthers minute, 1-celled, 
2-valved. Disk annular. Nucules truncate. Style long, 
exserted, stigma 2-fid.—J. D. H. : 
Fig. 1, Flower; 2, corolla laid open with stamens; 3 and 4, top of — 
filaments with anthers; 5, disk and ovary:—All enlarged. 
