collected by Mr. E. H. Wilson in China in 1908. _ As 
regards the hardiness of S. Wilsonii we are not yet ina 
position to pronounce definitely ; Mr. Wilson thinks it may 
be tender while young but hardy after a firm woody stem 
has been established. In any case, for the present, it will 
be desirable to afford protection for young plants during 
severe frost, though it may be remarked that when, durin 
the winter of 1911-12, on one occasion 18°-20° of frost 
were registered, only the tips of the twigs were injured in 
the nursery at Kew. Propagation can be secured by layers, 
but it will probably be preferable to rely on seeds, more 
especially since the plants flower when so young. 
Descriprion.—Shrub, small and compact; young twigs 
subterete, pubescent. Leaves alternate, petioled, elliptic- 
ovate, irregularly and sparingly toothed, sparingly pubescent 
with usually stellate hairs, 3-3 in. long, 4-1 in. wide, 
secondary nerves 2-3 on each side somewhat raised beneath ; 
petiole about 4 in.long. Flowers in axillary and terminal 
short, open, few-flowered racemes, their stalks about 4 in. 
long. Calyx campanulate, stellate-hairy, 14-1} lin. long, 
lobes triangular-rhomboid, subacute, very short. Corolla 
white, } in. long or rather longer, 5-partite; tube qis—} In. 
long ; lobes imbricate, somewhat spreading, elliptic-oblong, 
finely closely stellate-puberulous. Stamens 10, subequal ; 
filaments } in. long; anthers linear, yellow, 4 in. long. 
Ovary ovoid, pubescent ; style % in. long. Fruit globose- 
ovoid, about + in. long, 
z finely grey-velvety; seed globose- 
ovoid, about 4 in, long, brown. 
Fig. 1, calyx and pistil ; 2, pistil, calyx partly removed; 3, corolla and 
androecium, in vertical section ; 4 and 5, anthers ; 6, fruits; 7, a solitary fruit; 
8, seed :—all enlarged except 6, which is of natural size, 
