Tas. 8778. 
STEWARTIA sIneEnsis. 
Western China. 
TERNSTROEMIACEAE. Tribe GoRDONIEAE. 
-Srewartia, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 185 (Stuartia). 
Stewartia sinensis, Rehd. et Wils. in Sargent, Plant. Wiis. vol. ii. p. 395; 
Bean in Trees and Shrubs Brit. Isles, ed. 2, vol. ii. p. 553; species 
S. monadelphae, Sieb. et Zuce., necnon S. serratae, Maxim., affinis sed 
ab illa capsula distincte 5-angulata manifeste maiore, ab hac filamentis 
monadelphis et ovario glaberrimo apte distinguenda. 
Frutex vel arbor parva, 4°5-9-metralis; novelli dense pubescentes. Folia 
decidua, ovata vel oblongo-ovata, acuminata, basi cuneata, margine serrata 
dentibus parvis, 4-10 cm. louga, 2-4°5 cm. lata, ciliata, laete viridia, supra 
primum pilis sparsis adpressis induta, subtus costa nervisque primariis 
exceptis glabra; petiolus pubescens, 3-8 mm. longus. Flores speciosi, 
circiter 5 cm. lati, axillares, solitarii, aestate jam adulta aperti; pedunculi 
crassiores, 4 mm. longi, pubescentes. Sepala 5, ovata, acuta, integra vel 
parce serrulata, 8-15 mm. longa, ciliata, extra versus basin sericea, per- 
sistentia. Petala 5, alba, prope basin cohaerentia, obovato-orbicularia, 
extra sericea, circiter 2°5 cm. longa, 2 cm. lata. Stamina indefinita ; fila- 
menta monadelpha, basi sericea; antherae luteae. Ovarium ovoideum, 
dense hirsutum, e carpellis 5 compositum; stylus simplex, glaber ; 
stigmata 5, radiatim patentia, recurva. Capsula distincte 5-gona, lignosa, 
2 cm. lata, loculicide 5-valvis. Semina brunnescentes, compressa, alata.— 
S. monadelpha, Hort. Veitch (non Sieb. et Zuce.); Bean in Trees and 
Shrubs Brit. Isles, ed. 1, vol. ii. p. 553.—W. J. Bran. 
We are indebted for the flowering spray and the fruit 
of Stewartia sinensis now figured to Mr. H. Williams Grigg, 
in whose grounds at Cann House, Crown Hill, near 
Plymouth, it forms part of a very extensive and exceed- 
ingly well cultivated collection of rare trees and shrubs. 
There are also young examples in the collection at Kew, 
where they thrive well and are evidently quite hardy, 
since they have remained quite unaffected by the 
rigorous winters of 1916-17 and 1917-18, though they 
do not grow with the luxuriance that characterises them 
in the softer air of South Devon. This species was 
originally discovered in Western Hupeh by Mr. E. H. 
Wilson in 1901 when collecting for Messrs. Veitch, by 
OcropER—DECEMBER, 1918, ~ 
