proved quite hardy at Kew, where it thrives well in 
loamy soil. It was received as a small plant from the 
Arnold Arboretum in 1910, and as cultivated alongside 
S. undulata has become a taller plant of much stronger 
growth, less compact in habit. It flowers freely and 
perfects its fruit in sufficient quantity to render it a 
singularly handsome autumn plant. It may be increased 
by seeds, 
Description.— Shrub or small tree with densely grey-tomentose young twigs 
which become dark-purple and adpressed pubescent in the following season. 
Leaves linear-lanceolate, narrowed to both ends, acuminate or long mucronate 
at the tip, quite entire, 14-34 in. long, 2-4 in. wide, thinly papery, pubescent 
along the midrib above, elsewhere glabrous; lateral nerves about 12 on each 
side the midrib which they leave at a wide angle, raised beneath, 2-furcate - 
towards the leaf-margin ; petiole over } in. long, densely adpressed-pubescent ; 
stipules very early deciduous. Corymbs about 8 in. across, dense-flowered, 
with the peduncle and pedicel densely pubescent. Receptacle wide campanu- 
late, sparingly pubescent, about ;'; in. long. Sepals wide ovate, minutely 
mucronate, ciliolate. Petals white, orbicular. Stamens about 20, anthers red. 
Ovary pubescent above; style 4 in. long; stigmas capitate. Fruit red, 
depressed-globose, about 1 in. across. 
Tas. 8862.—Fig. 1, stipules; 2, apex of leaf; 8, flower-bud; 4, section of 
flower ; 5, seed :—aill enlarged. 
