Tas. 8444, 
STYRAX WILSONII, 
China. 
STYRACEAE. 
Styrax, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 669. 
Styrax Wilsonii, Rolfe; affinis S. japonici, Sieb. et Zucc., foliis duplo minoribus 
et irregulariter dentatis floribusque duplo minoribus differt. 
Fruticulus compactus, ramosissimus; rami novelli subterctes, pubescentes. 
Folia alterna, petiolata, elliptico-ovata, irregulariter et pauce dentata, 
parce pubescentia pilis saepe stellatis, 1-1°5 em. longa, venis lateralibus 
paucis subtus prominentibus; petiolus 2 mm. longus. ores in racemos 
axillares terminalesque breves laxos simplices paucifloros dispositi. 
Pedunculi circiter 3 mm. longi. Calyx campanulatus, stellato-pubescens, 
2°5-3 mm. longus; lobi triangulari-rhomboidei, subacuti, 0°5-1 mm. 
longi. Corolla alba, 8-10 mm. longa, 5-partita; tubus 2-3 mm. longus; 
lobi subpatentes, elliptico-oblongi, pilis minutissimis stellatis dense 
obsitis, aestivatione imbricati. Stamina 10, subaequalia ; filamenta 5 mm. 
longa; antherae lineares, flavae, 2°5 mm. longae. Ovariwm ovoideum, 
pubescens; stylus 1 em. longus. Fructus globoso-ovoideus, 7-8 mm. 
longus, minutissime cinereo-velutinus; semen globoso-ovoideum, 6-7 mm. 
longum, brunneum.—R. A. RoFe. 
The genus Styrax is represented in gardens by some 
half-dozen species of great beauty and distinction. Of 
these the best and hardiest is S. japonicum, Sieb. and Zuce., 
figured at t. 5950 of this work as S. serrulatum, from which, 
however, it is quite distinct. The others include S. Obassia, 
Sieb. and Zuce., which is given at t. 7039, and S.Hemsleyanum, 
Diels, which occupies t. 8339. Neither S. americanum, 
Lam., nor S. officinale, Linn., which may be grown success- 
fully in somewhat warmer localities, are very hardy at Kew. 
The species which forms the subject of our illustration 1s 
quite distinct from any of the foregoing; it comes nearest 
to S. japonicum, but is about half the size of that plant in 
all its parts. It is a compact shrub of shapely form, and 
flowers at a remarkably early age; the plant which yielded 
the material for our plate in June, 1911, 1s one which was 
raised from seed in 1909, but it bad actually flowered, 
though less freely, in 1910, when only seventeen months 
old. The seed from which ihe plant was raised was 
presented to Kew by the Arnold Arboretum and had been 
Juny, 1912. 
