the origin of the name Standishii, it is well applied in honour 

 of the active and intelligent nurseryman to whom many of 

 Mr. Fortune's rich Chinese collections were consigned. 



Descr. A twiggy, deciduous shrub, with flexuous, pale 

 yellow-brown branches, covered with deciduous, reflexed 

 bristles, that leave a papilla when they fall away, and are 

 hence scabnd. Leaves three to five inches long, an inch to 

 an inch and three-quarters broad, very shortly petioled, ovate- 

 oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, rounded at the base, 

 pale green, upper surface glabrous, margin ciliate, nerves 

 prominent below and petiole hispid. Flowers in pairs, on 

 short, curved, retrorsely hispid peduncles, white, very sweet- 

 scented, one-fifth of an inch to half an inch long, ovaries 

 connate ; calyx truncate. Corolla glabrous, with a short tube 

 hat is gibbous at the base, limb two-lipped, lips longer than 

 the tube; upper quadrate, cleft to the middle into four 

 blunt lobes ; lower, of one narrow, oblong lobe. Stamens 

 exserted. — J. L. H. 



Fig. 1. Peduncle and flower -.—magnified. 



