has been prepared is one of a large batch raised from seed 
presented to Kew, in January, 1904, by Professor Sargent of 
the Arnold Arboretum, The species, so far as can be judged 
from the experience of the past five winters, promises to be 
quite hardy. It has an erect habit, and flowers in July 
from the upper portion of the preceding year’s growth. At 
Kew it grows very well in the soil used for Ericaceous 
plants generally ; a sandy loam, devoid of calcareous matter, 
to which a proportion of peat has been added. Grown ina 
mass, K. cuneata produces a very pleasing effect; it is, 
moreover, useful on account of its flowering so late in the 
season, when comparatively few shrubs remain in blossom. 
Description. — Shrub, 3-4 ft. high, young branches 
glandular-hairy and red, ultimately glabrous and dark 
brown. Leaves alternate, 3-2 in. long, }-} in. wide, 
lanceolate or oblanceolate, acute or obtuse, cuneately 
narrowed at the base, sessile or very shortly petioled, 
glabrous and dark green above, beneath paler and with 
scattered minute glandular hairs, deciduous. lowers 
clustered in fascicles of 2-6 below the leaves; pedicels 
filiform with scattered glandular hairs. Calyx deeply 
5-lobed, glabrous, green with red margins; lobes 1} lin. 
long, obtuse, apiculate, the margins reflexed. Corolla 
5-8 lin. across, widely cup-shaped, shortly 5-lobed, 
10-gibbous at the base, glabrous except for 5 lines of 
glandular hairs outside, white, with a ring of red dots at 
the base; lobes widely deltoid-ovate, somewhat acute. 
Stamens 10, filaments pubescent at the base. Ovary sub- 
globose, 10-grooved at the base, closely covered with minute 
glandular hairs; style about 3 lin. long, glabrous. Capsule 
3 lin. wide, dehiscing by 5 valves. 
5 Fig. 1, a flower; 2, the same, corolla and stamens removed ; 3 and 4, stamens; 
» OVary :—all enlarged. 
