closely allied species. The differences are chiefly in the 
size and shape of the leaves, in the size of the flowers, 
and in the number of flowers in each fascicle. Mr. Kirk 
observes that the transition of one variety to another 
is so gradual that it is impossible to define lines of 
separation. The form now figured we regard as most 
nearly approaching Hooker’s var. lanceolata, which differs 
from his var. vulgaris in its lanceolate leaves and smaller, 
fewer flowers. In var. vulgaris some leaves are as much 
as five inches long by two and a half inches wide. Ina 
third variety (angustifolia, Hook. f.) many leaves are only 
an inch iong by one-third of an inch wide. The most 
curious exhibition of heterophylly is, however, seen in 
occasional basal and apparently sterile shoots which 
bear leaves shaped like those of Hawthorn, many of 
them only from a quarter to half an inch long. Near 
London the Hoheria needs greenhouse or at least wall 
protection. It is hardy further south and along most of 
our western seaboard. The material for our figure was 
kindly furnished by Mr. R. Windsor Rickards, Usk 
Priory, Monmouth, to whom it had been given by 
Mr. H. A. Tipping, Mountain House, Chepstow, in whose 
garden it flowers in August. It is also cultivated in the 
gardens of Cornwall, Devon, Scilly Isles, etc., where it is 
one of the most graceful and attractive of Jate-flowering 
trees. It thrives in loamy soil and can be propagated 
by cuttings. 
Description.—Tree of small size, 10-80 ft. high, and graceful habit, or a 
shrub ; young shoots covered with a grey stellate pubescence. Leaves alternate, 
persistent, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate at the apex, cuneate at the 
base, coarsely and irregularly dentate, teeth slender; the blade 1-4 in. long, 
3-1} in. wide, glabrous or with very scattered stellate pubescence beneath, rich 
lustrous green above ; petiole }-} in. long, stellately pubescent. Flowers in 
fascicles, produced during late summer in the leaf-axils of the current season’s 
twigs, {-1 in. diameter. Calyx grey-pubescent, turbinate, 5-lobed, the lobes 
triangular, acute, 3; in. long, reflexed at the fruiting stage. Petals 5, snowy- 
white, oblong-obovate, often unevenly lobed towards the apex, 2-1 in. long, 
? in. wide. Stamens numerous, arranged in 5 bundles, those of each bundle 
united below into a short column, separating above into slender filaments ; 
anthers yellow. Ovary usually 5-celled, ovules solitary in each cell; stigmas 5, 
capitate, Fruit consisting of 5 winged carpels attached to a central axis; 
wings membranous, obliquely obovate, } in. long, pinkish, and furnished with 
stellate pubescence. 
Tas. 8843.—Fig. 1, flower-bud ; 2, fully opened flower; 3, stamens of one 
phalanx ; 4, pistil; 5, fruit; 6, a single carpel, in section; 7, seed ; 8, embryo: 
—all enlarged. 
