the material for our tgure has been obtained is one which 
was received at Kew from the Arnold Arboretum in 1910, 
Descriprion.— Shrub, usually dwarf, rarely up to 5 ft. 
high ; twigs giabrous, bark shining brown. Leaves oblong 
or oblong-elliptic, shortly narrowed to apex and base or 
with the base somewhat rounded, margin finely crenate- 
serrate, 1{-2 in. long, 3-1 in. wide, densely pubescent in 
bud, very quickly glabrous, lateral veins 8-12 on each side, 
oblique; petiole 1-1 in, long; stipules linear-filiform, 
purple, about $ in. long. Flowers 1-3, rarely 4 to a 
flowering shoot ; pedicels somewhat villous, 3-3 in. long. 
feeceptacle turbinate, 14 lin. deep, somewhat villous below, 
glabrous above. Sepals finely acuminate from a triangular 
base, their tips red, glabrous outside, villous within, 12 lin. 
long. Petals white, wide oblong, 4-4 in. long. —_Anthers 
yellow. Ovary pubescent at the top. ruit dark purple, 
pruinose, rather widely pyriform or ellipsoid, 1 in. long, 
; In. wide. 
Fig. 1, young leaf with stipules ; 2, bud; 8, vertical section of a flower, the 
petals removed; 4 and 5, anthers ; 6, transverse section of an ovary, two ovules 
removed to show their position in the cell: —all enlarged, 
