A fifth snpposed species is the north Chinese A. Davidii, 
Hance. in Seemann’s Journ. Bot. vol. vi. p. 329, and vol. 
xiii. p. 132; it closely resembles A. serrata, and its author 
suspected it at first to be referable to A. biflora, but latterly 
he regarded it as distinct on account of its bractless 
peduncles; as, however, I find minute deciduous bracts In @ 
specimen of an otherwise identical plant from north China, 
no reliance can be placed on this character. 
A. spathulata is a beautiful free-flowering hardy shrub, 
introduced by M. Maries when travelling for Messrs. Veitch 
in Japan. ‘The specimen figured was sent from Combe 
Wood nurseries in April of last year. 
Descr. A much-branched shrub; branches slender, 
opposite, divaricate, ultimate pubescent or silky. Leaves 
about two inches long, elliptic-lanceolate, obtusely acumi- 
nate, obscurely or more strongly sinuate-toothed, glabrous 
above, slightly pubescent beneath, pale green with purplish 
edges, base contracted into a very short silky petiole. 
Flowers sessile in pairs on a short slender peduncle at the 
tips of the lateral branchlets, minutely two-bracteoled at the 
base. Ovary very slender, sparingly silky, one-third of an 
inch long. Calyz-lobes four or five, one-quarter of an inch 
long, obovate- or oblong-spathulate, obtuse, stellately 
spreading, reticulate, rose-red. Corolla nearly an inch long, 
between funnel and bell-shaped, contracted at the base into 
a short narrow tube, white with yellow blotches in the 
throat, puberulous or glabrous; lobes rounded, subequal. 
Stamens included, filaments hairy. Stigma three-lobed.— 
Jv. i. 
Fig. 1, Calyx; 2, corolla laid open ; 8, st ne apne 
of ovary :—all enlarged. pen; ¥,stamens 4, stigma; 5, transverse section 
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