side of that continent, which has been so ably discussed by 
Dr. Gray, and which he has shown to throw so much light 
on the origin and distribution of the North American Flora. 
H. japonica was introduced into cultivation by Messrs. 
Veitch; it flowers, like its American kinsman, as the leaves 
fall in autumn, and fruits the next summer. The petals 
in our specimen are narrower and less crumpled than in 
that figured in the ‘‘ Gardeners’ Chronicle,” and in some 
dried specimens from Japan. There is a plant of it 
in the Kew Arboretum presented by Messrs. Veitch, to 
whom I am indebted for the specimens here figured, of 
which the leaves were drawn in September, and the flowers 
in the following February. 
Descr. A shrub or small tree; branches rather stout, 
covered with brown bark, young branchlets, buds, petioles 
and often leaf-nerves beneath bracts and calyx externally 
clothed with a fine close pubescence. eaves ovate oblong 
or rounded, two to three and a half inches long and broad, 
obtuse or acute, sinuate-toothed or -crenate, firm in texture, 
dark green; base acute obtuse cordate or rounded; nerves 
deeply sunk above, very prominent beneath ; petiole very 
short, stout. Flowers in sessile or subsessile globose 
heads one-half to three-fourths of an inch in diameter, 
crowded ; bracts small, rounded, appressed to the calyx. 
Calye one-third of an inch across the lobes, tube cam- 
panulate; lobes broadly ovate, revolute, dull red, margins 
villous. Petals two-thirds of an inch long, strap-shaped, 
waved, tip acute obtuse or notched, golden-yellow, involute 
In estivation. Stamens very short, filaments stout; 
anthers opening by valves in front. Carpels two, silky, 
styles filiform. Capsule subglobose, half an inch long, 
densely brown-tomentose, girt at the base by the calyx- 
tube.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Bud (from “ Gardeners’ Chronicle”); 2, portion of flower laid open; 
3, petal; 4 and 5, front and side view of stamens; 6, rudimentary stamens; 
7, carpels ; 8, transverse section of a carpel :—all enlarged. 
