freely every year, and is very handsome in autumn, but 
its flowers, which appear in June, are. too fugacious to 
add much to the attractiveness of the species. It is 
very hardy, grows freely in soil of even moderate quality, 
and is easily increased by cuttings made of firm twigs 
about the end of July. 
DescrrPrion.—Shrub, 3-10 ft. high, branches white 
felted at length glabrescent, bark dark brown. Leaves 
ovate or ovate-elliptic, base acute or subacute, apex 
acute or shortly acuminate, mucronulate, 3-11 in. long, 
1_2 in, wide, dark green and sparingly beset with long 
slender hairs above, white felted beneath, lateral nerves 
oblique, about 4 on each side of the midrib, sunk above, 
raised beneath; petiole 4 in. long, tomentose ; stipules 
subulate, reddish, pilose, up to } in. long. njlorescences 
corymbose, terminal on leafy twigs 2-1; in. long which 
are at times continued by a twig springing from below 
the inflorescence; corymbs 15-25-flowered, 3— in. across, 
rather compact, grey-tomentose ; bracts filiform ; pedicels 
very short, or occasionally up to % in. long. Receptacle 
turbinate when in flower, loosely grey-tomentose, 1'5_ in. 
across. Calyz-teeth triangular-ovate, apiculate, clothed 
with the same tomentum as the receptacle. Petals 
rounded, } in. across, tinged with rose, in flower erect. 
Stamens about 20. Styles 2-3, the carpels villous at the 
top. Fruit orange-red, oblong-ellipsoid or turbinate 
oblong, over } in. long, about 4 in. across. 
Fig. 1, apical portion of a leaf; 2,a flower; 3, vertical section of a flower, 
the petals removed; 4 and 5, anthers; 6, a pyrene :—all enlarged. 
