The nearest ally of F. Mariesii is the Chinese fF’. Bungeana, 
which differs in the slender long petiolules of the leaflets, 
which are also more strongly serrated ; otherwise the species 
are, in so far as can be judged from males alone, very alike ; 
I have seen no fruits of either. 
F. Mariesii is a discovery of Mr. Maries, when travelling 
for Messrs. Veitch in China, who sent dried specimens 
from the province of Kiu Kiang, together with seeds, from 
which the plants were propagated, which afforded the Plate 
here produced; they flowered in Mr. Veitch’s nursery at 
Coombe Wood in May last. 
Descr. A small tree, glabrous in all its parts except the 
petioles, rachis of the leaf, and branches of the panicle, 
which are covered with a very fine pubescence, hardly 
visible to the naked eye, branches rather slender. Leaves 
four to six inches long; petiole and rachis very slender; 
leaflets two pairs and an odd one, one to three inches long, 
sessile or narrowed into an exceedingly short petiole, ovate 
obovate or lanceolate, obtuse acute or acuminate, glabrous, 
quite entire or serrated beyond the middle, pale green. 
Panicles very numerous from the uppermost axils, about as 
long as the leaves, strict, erect; branches erecto-patent, 
slender, strict. Flowers (3g only seen) shortly pedicelled. 
Calyx minute, four-cleft, lobes puberulous. Petals five to 
six, one-fourth of an inch long, linear-oblong or oblanceo- 
late, obtuse or subacute, white. Stamens two to four, 
about as long as the petals, filaments slender; anthers 
ovate. emale flowers, fruit not seen.—J. D. H. 
Figs. 1 and 2, Flowers with five and six petals respectively; 4 and 5, ba:k and 
front views of anthers :—all enlarged. 
