it can be grown as a shrub, and thrives well in loamy soil in 
a sunny situation. It can be increased either by cuttings 
or by seeds. SS. undulata, to which our form is here referred 
by Dr. Stapf, is taken in the sense proposed by Schneider, 
and includes S. Davidiana, Decne, which in turn appears 
identical with S. Henryi, Diels. The characters which dis- 
tinguish these Stranvaesias are somewhat slight. Though 
our numerous Chinese specimens can be assorted into two 
groups which approximately correspond to the S. undulata 
and S. Davidiana of Decaisne, these groups pass into each 
other. The plant figured is one of these intermediate forms, 
because its leaves are those of S. undulata as originally under- 
stood, while the inflorescences point to its being S. Davidiana. 
S. integrifolia, Stapf, from Kinabalu in Borneo, mainly differs 
from this Chinese species in having leaves with a smaller 
number of rather more prominent nerves. 
Description.—Shrub or tree, reaching 30 ft. in height in 
Central China; twigs adpressed hairy; bark ultimately 
dark bluish-grey. Leaves lanceolate or oblanceolate, most 
variable on the same individual, acute or shortly sharply 
acuminate or even almost blunt, base wide or narrow 
acute, margin quite entire, 13-4 in. long, 2-11 im. across, 
coriaceous, green, paler and usually quite glabrous beneath, 
at first pubescent on the midrib and margins above, often 
marked as with silvery lines; nerves 7-12 on each side; 
petioles 5-8 lin. long, usually more or less hairy; stipules 
subulate, 3-5 lin. long, more or less persistent till flowering 
is past. Corymbs often leafy below, the larger 2 in. long 
and rather more across, dense or rather open, their rachises 
and pedicels more or less adpressed hairy, or occasionally 
almost glabrous ; pedicels ultimately elongating, 3 lin. long. 
Lfteceptacle hemispherical-turbinate, in flower 1 lin. deep, 
laxly and sparingly pubescent below, usually glabrous 
upwards, Sepals triangular, very short, minutely ciliolate. 
Petals white, orbicular, about 2 lin. across, soon falling. 
Stamens about 20, anthers red. Ovary tomentose above ; 
style about 2 lin. long; stigmas capitate. Fruit orange, 
somewhat depressed-globose, 3—4 lin. in diameter. 
Fig. 1, bud; 2, a flower in vertical section, the petals removed; 3 and 4, 
stamens; 5, pyrene:—all enlarged. 
