confirmation, and probably arose from its confusion with 
P. lanata, D. Don., a tree absolutely distinct. There is no 
specimen in the Kew Herbarium from North India that 
matches the plant now figured. It is identical with Aria 
Decaisneana, Lavall., which is known to have existed in the 
Arboretum of Segrez in 1858. The late Mr. Lavallée states 
that his tree was known in the nurseries near Paris as the 
“Sorbier du Népaul.” The most probable explanation of 
its origin is that it is an improved variety raised under 
cultivation. The tree from which the figure was made has 
long been growing in the Kew Arboretum, where it 
flowers and fruits freely almost every year. ‘The severest 
cold does not hurt it. 
Drscription.— Tree, ultimately 40 ft. or more high with 
suberect branches. Bark at first covered with a pale tomen- 
tum, finally glabrous and dark lustrous brown. Leaves 3—7 
in. long, half as much wide, ovate to oval or obovate, obtuse, 
irregularly serrate, white-felted beneath, flocculent above 
when young, but lustrous-green and glabrous later ; veins 
parallel, prominent. Flowers in terminal and axillary 
corymbs three to four inches across, pedicels woolly. Bracts 
subulate, fugacious. Calya 3 in. in diameter, woolly, with 
triangular persistent lobes. Corolla ¢ In. across; petals 
ovate-orbicular, concave, dull creamy white. Style woolly 
at base, shorter than stamens. Stamens about twenty. 
fruit in loose corymbs, ultimately nodding, globose, 4 in. 
in diameter, bright red.tW. J. Bran. : 
— 1, bud; 2, section of calyx and pistil; 3 and 4, seeds :—all enlarged 
except 3, 
