Tas, 8563. : 
KOLKWITZIA AMABILis. 
China. 
CAPRIFOLIACEAE. Tribe CAPRIFOLIFAE. 
Korxwitzia, Graebn. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. vol. xxix. p. 593; Engl. & Prantl, 
Nat. Pflanzenfam. vol. iv. pars 4, Nachér. iii. pp. 330, 331. 
Kolkwitzia amabilis, Gracbn. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb, vol. xxix. p. 593; Hemsl. 
in Gard. Chron. 1903, vol. xxxiii. p. 81; Stapf in Hook, Ic. Plant. t. 2987 ; 
species unica. 
Frutex copiose ramosus, ramis hornotinis molliter hirsutis, annotinis glabratis, 
cortice brunneo. Folia ovata, basi rotundata, apice acuta vel acuminata, 
laxe dentata vel subintegra, 3 em. longa, 1-3 cm. lata, superne sparse, 
inferne ad nervos et ad margines densius hirto-pilosa vel fere villosa, 
nervis utrinque plerumque 3-5 tenuibus prorsus curvatis; petiolus 1-2 mm. 
longus. Flores geminati, paribus 3-9 in apice ramulorum brevium folia- 
torum quasi in corymbum dispositi; pedunculi filiformes, pilosi, ad 10 mm. 
longi; bracteae lineares vel subulatae, ad 3 mm. longae. Receptacula 
uniuscuiusque paris opposita vel unum altero altius ortum quasi ei 
lateraliter insertum, dense strigilloso-pilosa, superne in stipitem brevem 
fere solidum contracta, 83-4 mm. longa. epala linearia, acuta, saepe 
flexuosa, 5 mm. longa, hirta. Corolla oblique tubuloso-campanulata, 
alba roseo tincta, extra puberula, 1-1°3 cm. longa, tubo basi antice 
subgibboso intus antice villosulo, lobo antico quam lateralia paulo longiore. 
Stamina 4, antica ad tertiam partem, postica ad medium tubi inserta ; 
antherae late oblongae, 1 mm. longae. Stylus filiformis, scaberulus, 
8-9 mm. longus; stigma minute trilobum. Ovarii loculi 8, inaequales, 
unus saepe cassus; ovula 2-seriata. Fructus per paria connatl, nucu- 
mentacei, monospermi, calyce coronati, crasse costati, costis superne 
saepe in cornu productis, dense strigosi, inaequales, alter minor vel 
subpressus. Semen oblongum, circiter 2 mm. longum.—O. Starr. 
The specimens on which the Caprifoliaceous genus 
Kolkwitzia, Graebn., was originally based were fruiting 
ones collected by the Rev. Pére Giraldi near Gniu-yu, in 
the province of Shensi, North China. Its introduction 
to English gardens is due to Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons, 
who about 1901 received from Mr. E. H. Wilson a supply 
of the seeds of the solitary species, K. amabilis. The 
shrub was not seen by Mr. Wilson when in flower; his 
seeds were gathered near Fang, in the province of Hupeh, 
Central China. A plant raised from this supply flowered 
in the nursery of Messrs. Veitch at Coombe Wood for the 
first time in June 1910; another, from which the material 
JuLy, 1914, 
