Tas. 8862. 
STRANVAESIA SALICIFOLIA. 
China. 
RosackakE. Tribe PoMEAE. 
SrranvaEsiA, Lindl.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 605. 
Stranvaesia salicifolia, Hutchinson; species nova S. undulata, Decne, 
affinis sed foliis angustissimis nervis lateralibus numerosis stipulis et 
bracteis mox deciduis fructibus rubris nec aurantiacis differt. 
Frutex vel arbor parva; ramuli juniores dense cinereo-tomentosi, annotini 
atropurpurei et adpresse pubescentes. Folia lineari-lanceolata, utrinque 
acuta, apice acuminata vel longe mucronata, integerrima, 4-9 cm. longa, 
1-2 em. lata, tenuiter chartacea, supra in costa pubescentia, ceterum 
glabra ; nervi laterales numerosi, plerumque circiter 12, a costa sub angulo 
lato abeuntes, infra prominuli, bifurcati; petioli usque ad 1°5 em. longi, 
dense adpresse pubescentes; stipulae sub anthesi deciduae. Corymbi 
circiter 7 cm. expansi, densiflori, ramis pedicellisque dense pubescentibus. 
Keceptaculum late campanulatum, parce pubescens, circiter 2mm. longum. 
Sepala late ovata, minute mucronata, ciliolata. Petala alba, orbicularia. 
Stamina circiter 20 antheris rubris. Ovariwm supra pubescens; stylus 
3 mm. longus stigmatibus capitatis. Fructus ruber, depresso-globosus, 
fere 1 cm, diametro.—J. Hutcurnson. 
The Rosaceous genus Stranvaesia includes only five or 
six species, closely related to each other and separable 
_ only by rather slight characters. The distribution of the 
various forms is interesting, for the genus extends in 
India from Kumaon to the Khasia Hills and Burma, and 
extends thence into central and western China, while a 
solitary species occurs at high altitudes on Mount Kina- 
balu in Borneo. So far no representative of the genus 
has been met with in the Malay Peninsula. The species 
here described as 8S. salicifolia is very nearly related to 
S. undulata, Decne, from China, figured at t. 8418 of this 
work. From S. undulata our plant differs in its narrower 
willow-like leaves, its quickly deciduous stipules and 
bracts, and especially in its fruits which are red in place 
of orange. From the horticultural standpoint at all 
events the two plants are abundantly distinct. Our 
plate has been prepared from an example which has 
JULY-SEPTEMBER, 1920, 
