covered in 1908, south-west of Tachien-lu in Western 
Szechuan, growing at altitudes of 6,000 to 7,5€0 feet. 
Two years later Wilson collected seeds again in the same 
locality, and from these seeds of 1910 most of the plants 
now in cultivation were raised. The plant which has 
provided the material for our plant was purchased for 
Kew from Messrs. J. Veitch and Sons in 1913, and 
flowered there in April, 1914. The species had, however, 
blossomed two years previously in the garden of Miss 
E. A. Willmott at Warley Place, and was exhibited by her 
ata meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society in March, 
1912, as C. multiflora, Hance, another Chinese species. 
It ripened seeds at Kew in 1916. C. Willmottiae is more 
closely allied to C. Veitchiana, Bean, figured at t. 8349 of 
this work, than it is to @ multiflora, but from our plant 
C. Veitchiana may be readily distinguished by its pilose 
calyx and fruits, by its longer nectaries and by its 
exserted red anthers. 
Description.— Shrub, 6-12 ft. high; young branches slender, glabrous, 
minutely lenticellate the second year; winter-buds pale shining green, stalked, 
Leaves deciduous, obovate, ovate or oval, 1-8} in. long, 3-23 in. wide, rounded 
or cordate at the base, acute or short acuminate, shallowly and widely denticu- 
late; deep green and glabrous above, glaucous and at first silkily pilose beneath, 
ultimately nearly or quite glabrous ; veins seven to ten on each side the midrib ; 
petiole 3-4 in. long, glabrous, or at first slightly pilose ; stipules ovate-lanceo. 
late, 3-1 in. long, purplish, glabrous outside, silky within, soon falling. Spikes 
2-3 in. long, pendulous, carrying about twenty fragrant flowers; main axis 
pilose ; stipular bracts concave, $ in. long, glabrous outside, silky-pilose within : 
floral bracts smaller, pilose on both sides. Calyx glabrous, 5-lobed, the base 
shortly turbinate, the lobes rounded, 34; in. long. Petals roundish, with a short 
claw, soft yellow, 1-3. in. wide. Stamens 5, shorter than the petals, filaments 
glabrous, dilated towards the base ; anthers dark yellow; nectaries 5, deeply 
bifid, shorter than the calyx-lobes, Styles 2, glabrous; stigmas recurved, 
Capsules 2-celled, subglobose, } in. long, glabrous. Seeds narrow-ovoid, black 
and shiny; hilum white, 
Tan. 8708.—Fig. 1, bract ; 2, flower ; 8 flower, calyx-lobes and petals removed ; 
4, stamens and nectaries; 5, stamen; 6, pistil :—all enlarged, 
