of the Royal Horticultural Society as C. glaucophylla, 
Franch. That C. serotina is closely related to both of 
the species with which it has been associated is no doubt 
true. But when all these are closely examined they are 
seen to be quite distinct, C. serotina being readily 
separable from C. turbinata by its smooth berries and 
from C. glaucophylla by its green leaves. Various other 
differences, as Mr. Hutchinson points out, accompany 
these salient ones. The name used for this species is 
employed because C. serotina agrees with C. turbinata in 
flowering as late as August when flowering garden-shrubs 
are somewhat scarce. The bright red attractive fruits 
persist during the greater part of the winter. C. serotina 
appears to share with most of its congeners the features 
of hardiness and ease of cultivation; they thrive in any 
soil which is not waterlogged, succeeding well even in 
the poor sandy soil at Kew, but growing still more 
vigorously ina good loam. ‘To secure the best crops of | 
flowers and fruit a sunny position should be selected. 
Description.—Tree of small size; shoots of the first year silky pubescent, 
becoming glabrous and polished by the second season ; bark brown, cracking 
longitudinally. Leaves elliptic or obovate elliptic, tip acute and abruptly 
apiculate, base shortly cuneate, 1§-3 in. long, 1-12 in. wide, papery, finely 
reticulated on both surfaces, above nearly glabrous, beneath at first softly 
pubescent but soon becoming glabrescent, lateral nerves about 8 on each side 
the sari which they leave at an angle of 45°, raised underneath; petiole 
eche 3 in. long, densely hairy above, glabrescent beneath; stipules linear- 
subulate, 2 in. long, nearly glabrous, soon falling. Inflorescence many-flowered, 
wide-corymbiform, villous ; ultimate pedicels up to 4 in. long ; bracts setose, 
15, ts long, Soon falling. Receptacle turbinate, densely hairy. Sepals 
subulate-deltoid, pilose. Petals white, rounded, crenulate. Anthers reddish- 
cain Carpels 2, ultimately glabrous. Fruit globose, red, under } in. across, 
Tas. 8854.—Fig. 1, flower- 
stamens removed ; 3, flower, 
all enlarged. 
bud ; 2, flower in vertical section, the petals and 
laid open, the pistil removed ; 4 and 5, stamens :— 
