diameter. Sepals (leaflets of outer involucre) about twelve. 
Petals (leaflets of inner involucre) rose-coloured, about eighteen. 
Stamens thirty to. forty (probably fifty in each head, Ep.). Fruit of 
five radiating capsules; each about the size of a small hazel-nut, 
birostrate, two-celled, many-seeded : in the young state crowned 
by two long filiform styles. Leaves long, petiolated, bright 
green, glaucous beneath. /owers in February, and the fruit 
only attains its full size and ripens in September, splitting when 
ripe from the apex downwards.—Conditions of growth exactly 
those of Camellia Japonica, I should say ; and the tree of about 
the same degree of hardihood: the young trees Mr. Braine has 
transported thrive very well. There was a tree of Camellia 
Japonica in flower in the same wood, also C. oleifera, and another 
probably new species, together with Dr. Siebold’s Benthamia, 
a new and very fine Perguluria, an Ornus, six or seven Oaks, a 
Chestnut, a Liquidambar, and other rare trees.” 
The opinion of my valued friend Mr. Bentham on my im- 
perfect materials, is worth recording. “Your plant,” he says, 
“is allied to Altingia (or the Javanese Liguidambar), and Sedg- 
wickia. Sedgwickia is described as exinvoluerate, and in my 
specimens there is no appearance of there having been any in- 
volucre ; but the young shoots issue from buds covered with 
. Inbricate scales, of which the inner ones are larger and more 
coloured than the outer ones ; and one of my heads of fruit pro- 
ceeds from one of those sets of scales, without any leaves inter- 
vening, so that the scales form almost an involucre. The true 
American Liguidambar is also without involucre ; but the Ja- 
vanese one is described as having a deciduous one, and probably 
Altingia, Liquidambar, and Sedgwickia will be found to be three 
distinct genera—all apetalous and with an almost obsolete calyx, 
all pleiandrous, bicarpellary, distylous, pluriovulate :—and in all 
these characters, as well as in the capitate inflorescence and 
concrete capsules opening at the apex, your new genus agrees 
with them. But <Altingia and Liguidambar are unisexual, and 
Sedgwickia, which, like yours, is hermaphrodite, differs from 
yours in the want of involucre, or rather in the scales of the 
gemme- being very deciduous, enclosing leaves as well as flower- 
heads, and not being petaloid, whilst in yours each gemma 
encloses only a single flower-head, and has the inner scales so re- 
markably developed and petaloid ; and, also, your styles are long 
and straight, whilst those of Sedgwickia are short and recurved as 
in Liquidambar.” W.J. H. 
Curr. Our only knowledge of this pretty plant is derived 
from a small specimen sent from Hong-Kong, along with its 
seeds. We received them last December; and, although we 
have been most anxious to obtain this interesting plant in 2 
