this species and C. brachypoda has been dealt with by Mr. 
Hemsley under C. macrophylla, Wall., at t. 8261 of this 
work; of the two forms to which the name C. brachypoda 
has been applied Mr. Hemsley has treated the one with 
alternate leaves, now figured, as distinct, and has referred 
that with opposite leaves to C. macrophylla. Dr, Koehne 
who, twelve years earlier, had studied the question, accepts 
for our plant the name C. controversa proposed by Mr. 
Hemsley, in preference to the name C. macrophylla which 
he had then applied to it, but now treats the Himalayan 
opposite-leaved Cornel as distinct from the one of China 
and Japan ; for this last he employs the name C. brachypoda, 
C. A. Mey. In this he has been followed by Dr. Wangerin. 
However this may be, the fact has been definitely established 
that the alternate-leaved C. controversa here figured is distinct 
alike from C. macrophylla and C. brachypoda, In cultivation 
in this country C. controversa is quite hardy. It needs a 
good loamy soil and abundant moisture to bring out its 
characteristic beauty. It may be increased both by cuttings 
and by layers, but it is preferable to propagate from seeds 
if these can be obtained. : 
Descriprion.— Tree, 30-40 feet high, twigs glabrous or 
rarely sparingly pilose, reddish or blackish. Leaves alternate, 
elliptic or ovate-elliptic usually rather broad, base acute or 
rounded, apex sharply acuminate, 3-6 in. long, 2-3 in. wide, 
dark green above, more or less glaucous beneath, at first 
adpressed hairy on both sides but soon glabrous above, hairs 
attached mesially, lateral nerves 6-7 on each side, oblique, 
distinct; petiole 3-24 in. long. Inflorescence corymbose, 
much branched, up to 7 in. wide, peduncle 3-14 in. long; 
in fruit divaricately explanate, lax, the ramifications finely 
hairy, the pedicels 13-24 lin. long. Flowers white, 4-} in. 
across. feceptacle densely white-pilose. Sepals minute, 
triangular, hardly as long as the disk. Petals oblong or 
lanceolate-oblong, acute, sparingly puberulous on the back. 
Filaments rather longer than the petals; anthers about 1 lin. 
long. Style glabrous, about 1 lin. long. Drupe globose, 
3-4 lin, wide, blackish, stone slightly ribbed, with an apical 
foveola hardly one-third the width of the stone. 
Fig. 1, bud; 2, flower; 8 and 4, anthers; 5, portion of a corymb in fruit :— 
all enlarged except 5, which is of natural size, 
