TaB. 8833. 
CORNUS Kovsa. 
China, Corea and Japan. 
CorNACE®. 
Cornus, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p- 950, 
Cornus (§ Benthamia) Kousa, Buerg. Mss. apud Mig. in Ann. Mus, Bot. 
Lugd.-Bat. vol. it. p. 159 (1865) ; Garden, 1898, vol. i. p. 152, t. 898 ; 
Sargent in For, Flor. Jap. p. 47; Shirasawa in Icon. Ess. Jap. vol. ii. 
t. 59; C. K. Schneider in Handb. Laubholzk. vol. ii. p. 454, fig. 301, 802 ; 
Bean in Kew Bull. 1915, p. 179 cum ic., et in Trees & Shrubs, vol. i. p. 389 
cum ic. ; species cum C. capitata, Wall., comparanda eaque quam maxime 
congruens sed foliis deciduis haud persistentibus apte distinguenda. 
Arbor 8-9-metralis vel frutex ; novelli glabrescentes vel glabri. Folia opposita, 
decidua, apice acuminata, basi rotundata vel late cuneata, margine integra, 
ambitu ovata oblonga vel suborbiculata, supra saturate Viridia, subtus 
pallidiora cinereo-viridia, 2-5-10 em. longa, 2-4-5 em. lata, utrinque sed 
facie inferiori praecipue pilis brevibus appressis induta et in nervorum 
lateralium axillis utrinsecus floccis 4-5 villorum brunnescentium notata; 
petiolus 0°4-1°2 em. longus, minute pubescens. Flores numerosi, 2 mm. 
lati, in capitulum 0°9 cm. latum aggregati; capitula bracteis speciosis 
4 involucrata pedunculoque gracili 38°8-8-8 cm. longa suffulta; bracteae 
albae, late ovatae vel ovato-lanceolatae, apice acuminatae, basi cuneatae, 
longitudinaliter 6-10-nerves, horizontaliter patentes vel parum deflexae, 
3°8-6 cm. longae, 1°2-2°5 em. latae. Calyx minutus. Petala 4, oblonga, 
concava, 3-nervia, pubescentia, 1°5mm. longa. Stamina totidem, filamentis 
glabris. Stylus filamentis brevior, sericeo-pubescens. Fructus carnosi in 
congeriam rubram arbuteam globosam 1:2-1°8 em. latam conglutinati,— 
C. japonica, Koehne, Dendrol. p. 438 (1893) ; non Thunb. Benthamia 
japonica, Sieb, et Zuce. Flor. Jap. vol. i. p. 38, t. 16 (1835).—W. J. Bran. 
Cornus Kousa, originally found in Japan on the moun- 
tains of Kiusiu and of Nippon, has a wide distribution in 
north-eastern Asia, for it has since been discovered in 
Corea and in China. The plant from which the material 
for our figure was obtained was received at Kew from the 
Arnold Arboretum in 1910, where it had been raised from 
seed collected by Mr. E. H. Wilson in western Hupeh 
three years previously. Wilson has reported that he 
found it abundant both north and south of Ichang, at 
altitudes of from 4000 to 7000 feet, both as a shrub 
and as a small, flat-topped tree, fifteen to thirty feet in 
January-Marcu, 1920, 
