attractive hue, and they have a faint, not pleasant 
odour; but the shrub, as our plate shows, has a real 
value for the rich autumnal tints of its foliage. At Kew 
it has, in this respect, proved one of the most attractive 
of newer shrubs. It likes a sunny spot and alight loamy 
or peaty soil. In the absence of seeds it can be increased 
by layers. The leaves depicted were drawn during the 
last week of October, 1916, and show the autumnal 
colouring. 
_Description.—Shrub, 6-10 ft. high, with slender, spreading branches ; twigs 
brown, glabrous, sprinkled with pale lenticels. Leaves deciduous, alternate, 
entire, quite glabrous, broadly ovate to roundish, cordate or truncate at the 
base, blunt or acute at the apex, 5-nerved, 2-4 in, long, nearly to quite as wide ; 
deep green in summer changing to a rich red suffused with orange in autumn ; 
petiole 1-2} in. long. Flowers 3 in. wide, sessile, two of them set back to back 
at the summit of a peduncle } in. long and produced in October from the shoots 
of the preceding summer. Calyz 5-lobed, the lobes ovate-oblong, recurved. 
Petals 5, subulate, dull crimson-purple, z-8 in. long. Stamens 5, scarcely as 
long as the calyx-lobes. Styles2. Fruit a 2-celled; obovoid, ultimately woody 
a » in. long, Seeds several in each cell, very dark brown, shining, 
3 in. long. 
Tas. 8716.—Fig. 1, a pair of flowers; 2, calyx in vertical section; 8 and 4, 
anthers; 5, disk-gland; 6, ovary :—all enlarged, 
