40 ft. m height, with a straight trunk, 1-2 ft. in 
diameter. Branches tomentose when young, at length 
glabrescent ; old branches with a brownish bark. Leaves 
broad-oblong, obtuse or sometimes acute, with crenulate 
or serrate-dentate margins, 2~3 in. long, 1-1? in. broad, 
coriaceous, when mature quite glabrous, dark green and 
shining above, softly pubescent and greyish below, network 
of veins very close and distinct above; petiole tomentose, 
1-1 jn. long. Flowers solitary, axillary, from perulate 
tomentose buds; pedicels tomentose, J-1 in. long. Sepals 
4, oblong, velvety, thrown off together. Petals 4, obovate- 
rotundate, up to 1 in. long, thin, milk-white. Stamens 
very numerous. Ovary glabrous; carpels and styles 10-12. 
Capsule 3-2 in. long.—Orro Srapr. 
Currivation.—This shrub is essentially one for the 
milder parts of the British Isles. It has never succeeded 
at Kew even when planted against a sheltered wall. But 
for the gardens of the south and west of Ireland, the west 
of Scotland, Cornwall and similar localities, where the 
winters are mild and the summers equable and moist, it 
ought to prove a most charming acquisition. Like £. 
pinnatifolia (B. M. t. 7067), another but hardier species 
from Chile, it should be given a peaty soil such as Rhodo- 
dendreae love. In fact, wherever such species of 
Rhododendron as R, grande and R. Griffithianum thrive, 
there, both as regards climate and soil, will this Hucryphia 
be very well suited.—W. J. Bran, 
Fig. 1, part of upper surface of very young leaf; 2, bud; 3 and 4, stamens; 
5, pistil:—all enlarged. 
