166 . THE CHINESE ALTHHA FRUTEX. 
having been grown in a stove. But the last circumstance is evidently unimportant, for in 
Mr. Fortune's wild specimens now before us, the leaf-stalks are perfectly shaggy. This traveller 
found it forming a shrub eight to twelve feet high, with light ‘ blue’ flowers, in the hedges and on 
hill-sides on Poo-too-san, and other islands. 
» When growing in a stove, with the same kind of treatment as is required by the well-known 
Hibiscus rosa-simensis—that is to say, if grown in a mixture of sandy loam, peat, and leaf-mould, it 
forms a very handsome shrub, flowering in July and August.” 
