LAB 8298, 
PIERIS Formosa. 
India and China. 
ERIcAGEAE. Tribe ANDROMEDEAE. | 
Pieris, D. Don; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 588. 
Pieris formosa, D. Don in Edinb. N. Phil. Journ. vol. xvii. 1884, p. 159; 
ss <DC. Prodr. vol. vii. p. 599; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. iii. p. 461; 
_ Gard. Chron. 1881, vol. xv. p. 568, fig. 107; Forbes et Hemsil, in Journ. Linn. 
Soc. vol. xxvi. p. 16; a P. japonica, D. Don, statura robustiore, foliis lan- 
ceolatis oblongo-lanceolatis vel elliptico-oblongis majoribus, inflorescentia 
et floribus majoribus differt. 
Frutex erectus, sempervirens, vel arbor 3°5-6 m. alta, ramis vetustis cortice 
laxo passim deglubente, ramulis glaberrimis. olia apice ramulorum 
paulum conferta, lanceolata, oblongo-lanceolata vel elliptico-oblonga, 
5-13 cm. longa, 1°5-4°7 cm. lata, acuminata, basi saepius subrotundata, 
crebre serrulata, coriacea, glaberrima, nitida; petioli 5-10 mm. longi ut 
folia juvenilia et gemmae saepe atro-rnbri. ores penduli in paniculis 
terminalibus erecto-patentibus vel interdum paulum pendulis ad 15 em. 
longis latisque dispositi; rhachis glaberrima vel minute puberula, 
ramulis numerosis paulum confertis fere glabris; bractae lanceolatae, 
pedicellis saepe leviter breviores, mox deciduae; pedicelli circiter 5 mm. 
longi, crassi, prope medium bracteolis duabus parvis instructi. Ca/ycis 
lobi alabastro valvati, coriacei, ovato-lanceolati vel ovati, 3-4 mm. longi, 
subacuti, minute puberuli vel glaberrimi. Corolla urceolaris, alba vel 
interdum pallide rosea, 7-8 mm. longa, brevissime obtuseque 5-lobata. 
Stamina 10, inclusa; filamenta parce pilosa, basi dilatata; antherae dorso 
retrorse biaristatae. OUvariwm depresso-globosum, circiter 2 mm. diametro, 
5-loculare, loculis pluri-ovulatis; stylus corolla leviter brevior. Fructus 
globosus vel ovoideo-globosus, 4-6 mm. diametro. Semina subtriquetro- 
fusiformia, 2-3 mm. longa, testa laxa,—Andromeda formosa, Wall. Cat. 
n. 761, et in As. Res. vol. xiii. p. 395; D. Don, Prodr. Fl. Nep. p. 149; 
Wight, Ic. t. 1200; Lemaire in Ill. Hort. vol. v. t. 162 Comrostaphylis? 
formosa, Lemaire }.c. sub t. 162. Gaultheria sp., Griff. Itin. Not. p. 125, 
n. 430, et Ic. Pl. As. t. 517.—S. A. Skan. 
The introduction into European gardens of this handsome 
Pieris appears to have taken place upwards of half a 
century ago, for Lemaire, writing in 1858 about what is 
almost certainly the same species, states that it had been in 
cultivation for some years, though its precise history was 
unknown to him. Doubt has to be expressed as to whether 
the plant described and figured by him in the [lustration 
Horticole cited above is the same as that originally named 
Novemser, 1909. 
