having been found in gardens at Nagasaki by Oldham in 

 1862. It is, however, stated by Franchet and Savatier to be 

 indigenous in woods of Mount Fusi Yama, and in central 

 Niphon, where it forms a small tree. I am indebted to 

 Messrs. Yeitch for the specimen here figured which 

 flowered in their grounds at Coombwood in March of the 

 present year. 



Descr. A small tree, with the habit of M. Yulan, quite 

 glabrous except for a slight silkiness on the young leaves 

 beneath, and the silkily hursute sepals and bracts. Leaves 

 deciduous, appearing after the flowers, two to five inches 

 long, variable in shape from rather narrowly obovate with 

 rounded tips to elliptic and acuminate, membranous ; base 

 always narrowed; petiole one-quarter to one-third inch 

 long. Flowers three inches in diameter ; white, sweet- 

 scented. Sepals much shorter than the petals, silkily hairy 

 externally, oblong, obtuse. Petals about 15, narrowly 

 linear-oblong, obtuse, at first spreading, then reflexed, 

 white, with a very faint pink central streak externally. 

 Stamens few, filaments short, dilated ; anthers longer, linear, 

 clawed at the tip. Carpels very numerous, closely packed 

 on a sessile fleshy axis ; style subulate ; ovules 2. Fruit 

 of few ripening carpels, which are cuspidate at the tip, 

 coriaceous, with a separable bark, persistent, 2-valved, usually 

 1 -seeded. Seed orbicular, compressed. — /. D. H. 



Fig. 1, transverse section of axis and carpels ; 2 and 3, longitudinal and dorsal 

 section of carpel ; 4 and 5, stamens ;— figures to the right are of a ripe carpel, 

 a snod, and a seed cut longitudinally showing the embryo:— all enlnrqnl. 



