2 in. long by 1} to 2 in. wide. There are tufts of brown 
Stewartia sinensis, Rehder § Wilson. Ternstroemiaceae. 
~ Mr. E. H. Wilson introduced this shrub or small tree to the 
Coombe Wood nursery during one of his earlier Chinese joumners 
Being at first regarded as a form of the Japanese S. monadelpha, 
Sieb. & Zucc., it was distributed by Messrs. Veitch under that 
name, and as S. monadelpha no doubt exists in several gardens. 
A study of full material has led Messrs. Rehder and Wilson to 
treat it as a new species. 
It is described as being occasionally 30 ft. high. Our young 
plants have the shoots at first thickly covered with fine, out- 
standing hairs. Leaves deciduous, narrowly oval, tapered at 
both ends, remotely serrate, furnished above with numerous silky 
Stamens numerous, ‘with downy filaments. Styles united into 
one column, five-rayed at the top. 
_ This shrub appears to be quite hardy at Kew and thrives well 
jn a peaty soil such as suits heaths. It is quite easily propagated 
by cuttings. From the true S. monadelpha, perhaps not in 
cultivation, it is distinguished by its larger, more distinctly 
five-angled capsules which are twice as wide as those of S. 
monadelpha, 
XIII.—FUNGI EXOTICI: XX. 
(With Plate.) 
Polyporus pyrophilus, Wakefield. 
e ileus 6-8-5 em. diametro, crassus, rugulosus, azonatus, minute 
velutinus, rhabarbarinus vel pallide cinnamomeus. Contextus 
thabarbarinus, Stipes crassus, 3-6°5 cm. longus, nunc cylia- 
dricus, basi subbulbosus, 1-5 cm. diametro, nunc deorsum 
atus, 3-4 cm. diametro, plus minusve rugulosus, velu- 
tinus, pileo concolor. Port minuti, concolores, vix decurrentes. 
Sporae ellipticae, fere hyalinae, p 
TRortcan Arrica. N igeria: Southern Provinces; on burnt | 
8round, Farquharson 50, May, 1914, Sierra Leone: amongst 
ashes, V, WW omas, 1914. : 
large robust species. The Nigerian specimens have very 
: stems and resemble in habit P. orientalis, Lloyd, but 
differ in. the absence of setae in the hymenium. The Sierra 
* 
“one specimens are more slender and regular in form, but the 
