Tas. 8464, 
| CORNUS conrroyersa. 
Fimalaya and Eastern Asia, 
CorNACEAE. Tribe CoRNEAR. 
Cornus, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 950; Wang. in Engi 
Pflanzenr. vol. iv. no, 229, p. 43. 
; Cornus controversa, /emsl. ex Prain in Bot. Mag. t. 8261 et in Kew Bull. 
' 1909, p. 331; Wang. in Engl. Pflanzenr, vol. iv. no, 229, p. 49; Koehne, 
Mitt. Deutsch. Dendrol, Gesellsch. 1909, p. 185; ab altera specie sectionis 
Bothrocaryi, Koehne, foliis majoribus, inflorescentia ampliore post anthesim 
magis distracta, putaminis fovea apicali pro rata minore distincta. 
Arbor 9-12 m. alta, ramis novellis glabris vel raro parce pilosulis rubescentibus 
vel nigricantibus. Folia alterna, lamina elliptica vel ovato-elliptica, saepe 
lata, basi acuta vel rotundata, apice acute acuminata, 8-15 cm. longa, 5-8 
em. lata, supra saturate viridia, infra magis minusve glauca, primo 
utrinque adpresse pilosa, superne cito glabrata, pilis medio-fixis arcte 
adpressis, nervis lateralibus utrinque 6-7 valde obliquis conspicuis; 
petiolus 2-7 cm. longus. Jn/lorescentia corymbosa, pedunculo 2-3 em. 
longo suffulta, percomposita, ad 18 cm. diametro, fructifera divaricato- 
distracta, laxa, ramis ramulisque hirtellis, pedicellis 3-5 mm. longis. 
Flores albi, 8-12 mm. diametro. eceptaculum dense argenteo-incano- 
pilosum. Sepala minuta, triangularia, discum vix aequantia. Petala 
oblonga vel lanceolato-oblonga, acuta, dorso parce pilosula. Vilamenta 
petalis paulo longiora; antherae 1-5-2 mm. longae. Stylus glaber, 
1°75-2°5 mm. longus. Drupa globosa, 6-8 mm. diametro, nigrescens; 
putamen leviter costulatum, apice foveola vix trientem diametri aequante 
excavatum.—C. macrophylla, Wall. Cat. n. 469 partim; C. B. Clarke in 
Hook f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. ii. p. 744 partim; Forbes et Hemsl. in Journ. 
Linn. Soe. vol. xxiii. p. 845 partim ; Koebne in Gartenfl. vol. xlv. p. 285, fig. 1 
a-c et vol. xlvi. p. 96 et in Mitt. Deutsch. Dendr. Gesellsch. 1903, p. 36 ; 
Shirasawa in Ess. Forest. Ic. t. 77, fig. 18-28; Harms in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 
vol. xxix. p. 506; non Wall. in Roxb. C. brachypoda, K. Koch, Dendr, vol. 
i. p. 685 partim; Koehne, Dendrol. p. 435; non C. A. Mey. C. glauca, 
Blume ex K. Koch l.c. partim; Koehne in Gartenfl. vol. xlv. p. 286 et 
vol. xlvi. p. 96. Corni species 2 alternifoliae, 8. Moore in Journ. Bot. vol. v. 
p. 292.—O. Srapr. 
The Cornus here figured is one of the most elegant of 
small deciduous trees in cultivation ; it has a slender erect 
stem with horizontal branches in tiers a foot or more apart. 
Its alternate leaves distinguish C. controversa, Hemsl., from 
all other Cornels except the American C. alternifolia, Linn. 
f,, a species easily recognised by its fewer pairs of nerves. 
The plant from which our figure was prepared was obtained 
from Messrs. J. Veitch and Sons. The confusion between 
Novemper, 1912. 
