“Plantae Wilsonianae” (pars iv. p. 104); but the plant 
so named appears to Mr. Hutchinson to be D. cinerascens 
or some nearly allied species, rather than true D. tiliae- 
folium, which has in India been associated with D. nutans, 
Wall., and D. argenteum, Wall., but is considered by Mr. 
Hutchinson to be distinct from both. From D. tiliae- 
folium, as thus restricted, Mr. Hutchinson separates 
D. cinerascens by its shorter petioles, more rounded 
leaflets, persistent stipules and usually quite simple pilose 
racemes. D. cinerascens appears to have been first raised 
in Europe from Chinese seeds by the late Mr. M. L. de 
Vilmorin in 1896. It was presented to the Kew collection 
by him in 1907, and has proved to be quite hardy, being 
now a bush three to four feet high. It does not flower 
until late in the year, usually in October, and while this 
adds to its value in places where the climate is sufficiently 
dry and sunny to enable the flowers to develop fully, 
in a locality like Kew they are apt to decay prematurely 
through lack of sunshine and excessive humidity. For 
the same reason seed can rarely ripen, and the plant 
must be increased by late summer cuttings. The 
material for our plate we owe to Miss Willmott, in whose 
collection at Warley Place plants raised from Chinese 
seed collected by Mr. E. H. Wilson have grown well. 
Description.—Shrub laxly branching; young twigs flushed with purple, 
pubescent; in the succeeding season glabrous, brown, slightly angular. 
Leaves 3-foliolate, petioled, up to 3 in. long, shortly pubescent on both surfaces ‘ 
lateral leaflets shortly petiolulate, ovate-orbicular or nearly orbicular, abruptly 
mucronate, with a rounded or truncate base, 1-1} in. long, 3-1} in. wide ; 
end-leaflet long-petiolulate, obovate-orbicular with a wide-cuneate base, 
1}-14 in. long, 1-1} in. wide ; lateral nerves about 5 on each side the midrib ; 
stipels subulate, ; in. long; rachis up to 2} in. long, pubescent, channelled 
above; stipules persistent, obliquely lanceolate, acute, 4-+ in. long, 4-3; in. 
wide, brown, slightly pubescent externally. Inflorescence up to 4 in. long, 
racemose, many-flowered ; rachis pilose ; bracts soon disappearing, lanceolate, 
3-# in. long, pubescent outside, striate within ; pedicels spreading or slightly 
recurved, slender, up to 3 in. long, pilose-pubescent. Calyx almost equally 
5-lobed, ;'5 in. long, pubescent outside; lobes wide-ovate, rather acute. 
Corolla 2 in. long, rose-carmine standard flushed with green at the base 
within; wings more or less oblong, shortly clawed. Ovary puberulous, 
3-5-ovuled ; style distinctly curved, glabrous; stigma minute. Fruit curved, 
up to 1} in. long, usually 5-seeded, flattened, crenately constricted, 1 in. wide, 
reticulate, sparingly and shortly pubescent. Seeds blackish, shining, } in long. 
Tas. 8805.—Fig. 1, tip of a leaf; 2, flower; 8, a flower, the petals removed; 
4, wing-petal ; 5, keel-petal ; 6, anther ; 7, pistil; 8, fruit:—all enlarged. 
