especially for the fragrance of its blossom, which is borne 
in late May and early June. There is a double-flowered 
variety, more generally met with in gardens than P. wensis 
itself, which is erroneously termed sometimes P. angusti- 
folia, flore pleno, sometimes P. coronaria, flore pleno; its 
Owers are 2—3 inches across. So far as is known the true 
P. angustifolia, which was grown in English gardens a 
century and a half ago, is not now in cultivation in this 
country. 
Descriprion.— Tree, deciduous, 20-30 ft. high; trunk 
1-13 ft. in diameter; crown rather loose and open; twigs 
slender, sometimes spine-tipped, at first covered with a soft 
white wool which turns brown and falls almost entirely 
away by winter. Leaves petioled, ovate-rhomboid or ovate, 
acute, base cuneate, margin coarsely irregularly often 
double toothed, on the virgin shoots of the year 3-5 in, 
long, 2-33 in. wide, with frequently one or two pairs of 
lanceolate lobes near the base divided halfway to the 
midrib, on the flowering twigs 2-3 in. long, 14-2 in. wide, 
scarcely lobed; all dark green above and glabrous except 
for a loose tomentum at first opening, very tomentose 
beneath when young and remaining more or less persistently 
hairy till they fall; petiole 3-14 in. long; stipules subulate. 
Flowers violet-scented, 13-2 in. across, in 4—7-flowered 
corymbs ; peduncles 14-1? in. long, floccose. Calyx densely 
white-tomentose outside; lobes 4 In. long, subulate. Petals 
concave, obovate, narrowed to a claw s In. long. Stamens 
numerous ; filaments glabrous; anthers yellow. Ovary and 
style floccose. Fruit fragrant, yellowish-brown, depressed 
globose, 1-1} in. wide, crowned by the persistent calyx; 
flesh hard and very astringent, 
Fig. 1, vertical section of a flower, the petals removed; 2 and 3, stamens :— 
all enlarged. 
