smaller and more numerous leaflets, which approaches so 
closely to S. microphylla (Pyrus microphylla, Wall.), a native 
of Sikkim, that it might readily be regarded as a geogra- 
phical form of that species. : 
Cuirivation.—The Kew plant of S. Vilmorini, now a 
bush about 6 ft. in height, has grown well in a border of 
loamy soil. It forms a most attractive object in early June 
when the elegant pinnate foliage is at its best and every 
shoot bears a terminal corymb of pretty white flowers. 
The fruit is in good colour by September, and the seeds 
should afford a ready means of propagating what is one of 
the most attractive of the new shrubs received from China 
in recent years. 
Drsoription.— Shrub or small tree, 10-20 ft. high; 
branches striate, glabrous or sparingly rusty-pubescent ; 
buds ovate, acuminate, with somewhat pubescent tips. 
Leaves slender, unequally pinnate, rhachis slightly winged, 
nearly glabrous; leaflets in 9-14 pairs, opposite or sub- — 
alternate, oblong-elliptic, apiculate, 14-14 in. long, 4-4 in. 
wide, sharply toothed beyond the middle, glabrous above 
and below, wide-reticulate; stipules subulate, about } in. 
long. Injlorescence few-flowered, rusty-pubescent. lowers 
small, about 4 in. across; receptacle pubescent. Sepals 
almost glabrous, triangular, obtuse, ; in. long. Petals 
obovate, short-clawed, 4 in. long, yy in. wide. Stamens 
about 20. Styles 3, obtuse, almost glabrous. Fruit globose, 
red, about + in. across, 
Fig. 1, flower-bud ; 2, partial section of flower, the petals removed ; 3 and 4, 
upper portion of filaments and anthers :—all enlarged. 
