tomentose, at length ¢labrous and dark with small lenticels ; 
winter-buds ovoid, obtuse, brown to bright orange, ciliate. 
Leaves broad, ovate, acute or acuminate, rounded at the 
base, irregularly dentate, from 2 to over 4 in. long, 
13-3 in. wide, firm, floccose-tomentose above when 
young, ultimately glabrous, whitish-tomentose beneath, 
lateral nerves straight, very oblique, 6-10 on each side; 
petioles slender, about 1 in. long. Racemes umbel-like, 
4—6-flowered; pedicels about 4 in. long, whitish-villous. 
3? 
feceptacle + in. long, whitish-villous. Calyx-teceth ovate, 
acute, spreading in flower, erect and persistent in fruit. 
Fruit more or less globose, about 1 in, in diameter, greenish- 
yellow and more or less red on one side with small lenticels ; 
flesh austere, gritty—Ovrro Srapr. 
CutrivaTion.—The most striking character of this rare 
and interesting tree is its erect, open, and rather formal 
habit. It has been grown at Kew quite unprotected for 
ten years, and may therefore be considered hardy.’ Like 
the other members of the same genus it enjoys generous 
treatment. It has grown well at Kew in a border of rich 
loam. It flowered in the spring of 1907 better than it had 
done previously, this being partly due to increasing age 
and partly, no doubt, to the splendid ripening weather of 
the previous autumn.—W. J. Bran. 
Fig. 1, part of young leaf (upper surface) ; 2, section of calyx with pistil 
3 and 4, anthers; 5, part of the peel of the fruit with lenticels :—all enlarged. 
