are several of the mountain regions of the Southern Island, 
that might succeed in England. 
The specimen here figured of Puttosporum ertocarpum 
was sent to be named at the Herbarium of the Royal 
Gardens, Kew, by Thos. Hanbury, Esq., F.L.S., from his 
celebrated garden of the Palazzo Orengo, La Mortola; _ 
and there was no difficulty in identifying it with the above 
named Himalayan plant. The flowers were rather heavily 
sweet-scented. 
Deser.—A small tree, ten feet high or more; branches 
spreading, more or less whorled; branchlets, young leayes 
and panicles covered with a white flocculent deciduous — 
tomentum that adheres for some time along the midrib 
and nerves of the leaves above. Leaves three to six inches. 
long, shortly petioled, very variable in shape from obovate- 
oblong to ovate-lanceolate, narrowed to an obtuse tip, 
coriaceous, at length glabrous and dark green above, be- 
neath pubescent, with a pale brown tomentum ; midrib 
and twelve to fifteen pairs of nerves strong beneath ; 
petiole half an inch long, stout. Flowers in terminal 
panicles that are corymbosely collected at the extremities 
of the branches, golden yellow, sweet-scented. Panicles 
two to three inches long, shortly peduncled; branches 
and branchlets short, stout, tomentose; bracteoles at the 
base of the pedicels minute. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, sub- 
acute, tomentose, three-fourths shorter than the corolla- 
tube. Corolla-tube a third of an inch long; lobes ovate, 
recurved, not half as long as the tube. Filaments glabrous ; 
anthers linear, red-brown. Ovary tomentose, style stout. _ 
Capsule half an inch in diameter, globose, woody, many- 
seeded, crowned with the persistent style.—J. D. H. , a 
a 
Fig. 1, Flower with the corolla removed; 2 and 3) stamens; 4, ovary; 
5, transverse section of do,:—A/l ealarged; 6, capsules from the Herbarium, 
of the natural size, 
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