From the typical C. salicifolia, which we are not certain 
is at present in cultivation, the variety now figured 
differs in the leaves being broader ard duller green, and 
in their lower surface as well as the young branchlets 
being covered with a coarser, more woolly pubescence. 
Another variety, C. salicifolia var. floccosa, Rehd. et Wils., 
is cultivated at Kew, and is well distinguished by its 
narrower leaves and three-stoned fruits. The nearest 
ally of C. salicifolia- is C. Henryana, Rehd. et Wils., also 
from Western Hupeh ; this differs by its ovoid fruits and 
larger leaves pubescent on both surfaces. 
Description.— Shrub up to 10 ft. high of graceful habit, branches spreading. 
Branchlets slender, at first clothed densely with a pale brown wool, most of 
which falls away by autumn exposing the handsome, dark reddish-brown bark, 
Leaves stiff and coriaceous, persistent, oval to slightly obovate, acute, cuneate 
at the base, entire, 13-3 in. long by 3-14 in. wide; dark dull green, rugose and 
glabrescent above; at first wholly lanuginose beneath, ultimately greyish- 
white, with wool on the midrib and veins only; veins in nine to eleven pairs, 
deeply impressed above ; petiole »,-1 in. long, lanuginose. Corymbs 1-2 in. — 
wide, terminal on 2-4-leaved branchlets. Flowers dullish white, opening 
in June, } in. wide. Calyx woolly, funnel-shaped, with five short, erect, 
acute, triangular lobes. Petals five, rotund. Stamens about twenty; anthers 
brownish-red. Fruit globose to slightly ovoid, } in. wide, bright coral red; 
stones 2, compressed-hemispherical, grooved on the dorsal side. 
Tas. 8694.—Fig. 1, flower bud ; 2, flower ; 8, calyx in vertical section, showing 
the pistil; 4 and 5, stamens :—all enlarged, 
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