the undersurface of the leaves. It thrives in a good 
loamy soil, and like its congeners is easily increased by 
cuttings taken in late summer. 
DrscripTion.—Shrub, 2-5 ft. high; branches terete ; 
young shoots hairy but soon becoming glabrous; bark 
thin, reddish-brown or at length tawny, soon flaking; 
buds ovate-acute, their scales ovate-lanceolate, acute, 
rather numerous, chestnut-brown, persisting for a con- 
siderable time at the bases of the shoots. Leaves ovate 
or wide lanceolate, acute, rounded at the base, the 
margin glandular-serrate, 21-3 in. long, 1-2} in. wide, 
sparingly adpressed hairy with usually 4—5-rayed stellate 
hairs above, densely clothed beneath with a soft felted 
tomentum of stellate hairs each of which has a very long 
central ray; petiole hirsute, }-1 in. long. Inflorescence 
many-flowered, corymbose, the corymb more or less 
dense, convex, 44 in. across, its main and secondary 
branches stellate-hairy ; pedicels 1—} in. long, hoary with 
adpressed stellate hairs. Receptacle turbinate, +z in. long, 
hoary with adpressed stellate hairs. Sepals wide obovate, 
somewhat acute, glabrescent above, very short. Petals 
spreading, wide elliptic, blunt, } in. long, white or flushed 
with pink, stellate-pubescent outside. J ilaments gradu- 
ally narrowed upwards from a rather broad base, not 
toothed ; in length somewhat exceeding the petals. Disk 
pruinosely papillose, covered in the middle with minute 
stellate hairs. Styles 3, shorter than the filaments. 
Capsule nearly globose, hoary-pubescent, crowned by the 
persisting sepals, } in. in diameter. 
Fig. 1, stellate hairs from upperside of leaf; 2, stellate hairs from under-side 
of leaf; 3, flower-bud; 4,an expanded flower; 5 and 6, stamens :—all enlarged. 
