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clothed on the lower surface with simple hairs and relatively smak 
cymes of flowers. Koehne seems to have been the first to publish 
a description of the Asiatic species having alternate leaves, though 
unfortunately under a wrong name ; but Mr. Spencer Moore, when 
naming Bisset’s Japanese plants upwards of thirty years ago, 
marked some of the specimens in the Kew Herbarium as “ species 
nova, and published a note on the same in the place cited above. 
His note runs as follows :—* Vidi in Herb. Kew. Corni species 2 
alternifoliae gerontogeae nondum (ut apparet) descriptae. Harum 
altera in regione Sinensi a Fortune et Japonia a Maingay necnon 
nuper a cl, Bisset referta, ab altera Sikkimensi et Bhotanensi 
praecipue calyce urceolato (haud campanulato) differt. Ambae 
C. alternifoliae, Linn. f. sunt affines, sed cymis laxis facile dis- 
tinguendae. Vidi etiam C. brachypodae, C! A. Mey. (C. macro- 
phyllae, Wall. ?) specimen’ex Herb. Lugd. Bat. comm., in quo 
fortasse sint folia interdum alterna. LExsistit autem hoe loco 
quaedam quaestio difficilis; num haec species sint vere semper 
alternifoliae,” 
I have extracted this note in full, because with much additional 
material under observation I am unable to distinguish two species, 
and Dr. Koehne also combines the Indian and Chinese specimens 
under one name. 
similar in aspect, yet I think that all those enumerated below may 
be classed as one and the same species. In its most highly 
Hupeh and Szechuen, 233 and 4,951, it is perhaps the most 
ornamental species of the genus. Briefly described this state is :— 
Arbor 9-12 m. alta, ramis florigeris graciliusculis glabrescentibus 
ppressis instructa, nervis primariis utrinque saepius 6-8 sat con- 
conspicuis arcuatis ; petiolus gracilis, 3-7 cm. longus, Cymae 
terminales, percompositae, laxae, maximae usque ad 18 cm. 
diametro, breviter stipitatae, ramis pedicellisque puberulis. ores 
albi, numerosi, circiter 10-192 mm. diametro. 
2 ee pilis paucis argenteis medio affixis conspersa, apice 
“he egy pone C. controversa, Hemsl., includes the specimens 
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