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in sora ee The species was originally discovered by Delavay 
nan, but was introduced to cultivation about 1901 by 
Wilson, who found it in W. Hu peh. It is a deciduous shrub 6 to 
15 feet ‘high with grey, smooth branchlets bearing the leaves in a 
cluster at the end. The leaves are mostly oval but {vary more or 
less towards ovate and obovate, 1 to 24 inches long, 4 to 14 inches 
wide, tapering towards both ends, the margin set with minute, regular, 
incurved teeth; both surfaces glabrous; petiole + to 4 inch long. 
The flowers appear in June, when the leaves are already fully-grown, 
borne on pendulous, corymbose racemes 14 to 3 inches long, each 
flower on a slender, “a ihe peduncle 4 to 1 inch long. Corolla | 
pais 4 inch long. Fruit "a dry, 5-celled, subglobose capsule 
+ inch in length traversed lengthwise by 5 acute ridges. 
his species is most nearly allied to E. himalaicus, Hook. f. and 
homs., which i _ however, well distinguished by the bristly midrib 
( (beneath and pet ee 
the genus and like its ally, M. Veitchionuin, oa sl, and Wilson 
deciduous tree 50 feet high with pinnate leaves on to 15 inches 
long ; leaflets 5 to 11, the terminal ones the largest ; the lower ones 
- ovate and rounded at the base, middle ones oval, terminal ones 
obovate and more or less cuneate at the base ; all are acuminate at 
the apex and have small slender teeth except towards the base; there 
are scattered minute bristles on both surfaces and tufts of down in 
the vein-axils beneath; they vary in size from 1 inch long and 
bas 
At present the genus ak is not strongly represented in 
the out-door niger But to the lo ong cultivat ed O. Be bob 
from any of the above. It is an evergreen shrub or small tree up 
to 15 ft. high, the young shoots at first minutely downy, ultimately 
grey pa white. Leaves hard in texture, oblong-lanceolate or 
narrowly oval, 3 to 6 inches long, pointed, subcordate at the base 
or rounded to a short, purplish petiole ; margins armed with large, 
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