neighbourhood, growing in thickets at about 8,000 feet 
above sea-level. The plants now in cultivation were 
raised from seed collected by Wilson, though during the 
interval between its discovery and its introduction the 
species has been met with at least on two occasions; 
specimens from Szechuan were communicated by Mr. A. 
Henry in 1890, and others from Western Hupeh were 
gathered by Wilson in 1900. For the material for our 
figure we are indebted to Miss E. A. Willmott, in whose 
garden at Warley Place S. latifolia has been in culti- 
vation for the past nine years. Here it has thriven 
against a north wail, flowering and ripening its fruits 
every season. The original plant, which is now about ten 
feet high, was raised from the only seed which germinated 
out of a few collected by Wilson and received from the 
Arnold Arboretum. At Warley Place this plant has not 
been given any special protection, and has proved quite 
ardy. Propagation has been effected by cuttings, by 
division, and from seed. 
acuminate, cuneate or rounded at the base, 2-5} in. long, 14-3 in. wide, 
rehome: cach mericarp compressed, somewhat reniform, bright blue, 
cnlately rugose on drying up, about 3 in. long, and as much across. 
Tas. 8859.—Fig. 1, portion of a leaf, showing i 3 
: wing indumentum; 2, flowers ; 
3, . ae and stamen; 4, stamen, seen from behind ; 5, pistil, in vertical 
section ; 6, fruit, with only one mericarp developed; 7, fruit with two meri- 
carps :—all enlarged except 7, which is much reduced, 
