that the bud is not enclosed by the base of the petiole, the 
leaves are nearly always contracted at the base, more finely 
toothed and glabrous or nearly so underneath, while the 
inflorescence is branched at the base and the fruits are 
abruptly contracted and mucronate at the tip. S. Hemsleyanus 
is not closely related to any species from Eastern Asia; its 
nearest ally appears to be the Mexican S. glabrescens, Benth. 
Jt thrives well in open loamy soil and promises to be hardy ; 
for yonng plants, a proportion of one-third peat added to 
ordinary soil, about their roots, will probably be found 
advantageous. 
Drscriprion.— Tyee, reaching a height of 20-30 feet, 
with remarkable white bark ; branches almost cylindric, at 
first slightly stellate-hairy, at length glabrous and tawny. 
Leaves alternate or almost opposite, usually wide obovate- 
elliptic or obliquely ovate, obtuse or subacute, occasionally 
shortly acuminate, base rounded or almost cuneate, 2-5 In. 
long, 13-4 in. wide, rather thin, denticulate, glabrous above, 
beneath sparingly stellate-pubescent on midrib and nerves, 
elsewhere glabrous; main nerves 5-8 on each side anasto- 
nosing near margin, transverse veins nearly parallel. Jnjlo- 
rescence 3-6 in. long, racemose or almost paniculate, axillary 
or terminal, 8—20-flowered ; rachis at first with a close stellate 
pubescence, at length nearly glabrous; bracts minute, tomen- 
tose, caducous. Flowers 8-10 lin. lon g, 3-11 in. across; pedicels 
lin. long, stellate-pubescent, Calya cup-shaped, 5-6-toothed; 
tube 25-3 lin. deep, 2 lin. wide, faintly ribbed, rusty stellate- 
tomentose outside; teeth acute, 1 lin. long or less. Cvrolla 
White, 5-partite ; tube 2-3 lin. long ; lobes imbricate, elliptic- 
lanceolate, 5-8 lin, long, 24-34 lin. wide, almost membra- 
nous, closely white stellate-tomentose without and within. 
Stamens 10, shorter than corolla lobes; filaments flattened, 
sparingly clothed, like the anthers, with stellate hairs. 
vary ovoid, densely white tomentose, 3-celled, many- 
ovuled ; style glabrous, somewhat shorter than corolla 
obes. Fruit obovoid, 10 lin. long, 6 lin. wide; exocarp 
somewhat pubescent ; apex tipped with the persistent style- 
ase ; calyx in fruit persistent. 
Fig. 1, calyx and pistj : . ns ; 
Bare de Pistil ; 2, stellate hairs; 8, corolla, laid open, and stamens ; 
ST okt: wegen 
