phylla, that stands in need of a distinctive name. For this 
alternate-leaved Cornel Mr, Hemsley proposes the name 
C’. controversa. 
C. macrophylla thrives best in good loamy soil in a sunny 
position, and the only special treatment called for is the 
pruning away of the lower branches, so that a clean trunk 
5 or 6 ft. high may form. If this be done, it makes a 
very handsome small tree of distinct and striking aspect. 
The most suitable use for it in the garden, perhaps, is as an 
isolated specimen on the lawn. 
Descriprion.— Tree, usually 15-30, sometimes up to 50 ft. 
high, all parts except the flowers glabrous or obscurely 
puberulous ; flowering branches rather slender, dull reddish. 
Leaves opposite, usually ovate, sometimes lanceolate or 
elliptic, generally 4—6 in. long, but at times longer or shorter, 
tapering to a caudate-acuminate apex, base rounded or 
cuneate sometimes unequal, papery, glabrous or soon 
glabrescent above, beneath pale or glaucous usually more 
or less beset with small closely adpressed centrally attached 
hairs ; main-nerves conspicuous, usually 5-9 on each side, 
oceasionally on leaves of the same branch 4 or 8; petiole 
slender, 14-2 in. long. /owers 4-merous, yellowish-white, 
4—} in. across, in compound stipitate terminal and lateral 
cymes 23-5 in. across, with glabrous or glabrescent branches 
and without bracts or bracteoles; pedicels shorter than the 
flowers. Calyx 1-14 lin. long, densely covered with silvery 
hairs ; tube distinctly ribbed, teeth minute. Petals valvate, 
lanceolate, somewhat obtuse, spreading or recurved, hairy 
without. Stamens shorter than the petals; anthers dorsi- 
fixed. Drupes globose, 24-34 lin. across, the tip not 
hollowed. 
Fig. 1, a flower-bud ; 2, an expanded flower; 3, calyx and pistil; 4 and 5, 
anthers :—all enlarged. 
