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unequal, triangular, spine-tipped teeth, dark dull green, prominently 
net-veined and glabrous on both surfaces. It flowers in autumn 
like O. Aquifolium, producing the blossoms in fascicles from the 
leaf-axils; they are creamy white, 4 inch wide, and fragrant, 
solitary on a slender peduncle $ inch in length. The fruit is 
described as violet-black, ovoid and # inch long. ; 
All the plants in cultivation appear to have been raised from a 
the Kew collection from Messrs. Veitch. In the adult state the 
leaves are less formidably toothed and are even entire. It is 
apparently quite hardy. 
Salix Bockii, Seemen [Salicaceae]. 
This is a pleasing dwarf willow of spreading habit and growing 
only 3 or 4 feet high, densely branched and very leafy. he 
slender young branchlets are covered with silky grey down and 
bear the leaves at intervals of } to + inch. The leaves are oblong 
or oval, + to 4 inch long, rounded at the base, mucronate at the 
apex, dark green and glabrescent above, silvery beneath with silky 
appressed hairs. The flowers open in October and November 
before the fall of the leaf, and the plant, especially the male, is 
very pretty then. The catkins are 1 to 2 inches long, each male 
ower having two stamens whose filaments are united by the whole 
or nearly the whole of their length, the bracts narrowly lanceolate 
and obtuse. 
Salic Bockii was introduced by Wilson to the Arnold Arboretum, 
to which institution Kew is indebted for plants. Mr. Wilson found 
it in the Yang-tze Kiang valley on the margins of streams where 
it is often submerged during the high water season. e says it 
flowers there also in late autumn, and he regards it as one of the 
most ornamental of dwarf willows. 
China than this. It is quite distinct among willows, to not one 
ong. Male catkins 4 to 7 inches Jong; stamens 2, four times as 
long as the scale. Female catkins longer, sometimes as much as 
11 inches. 
Mr. Wilson, who discovered the species, informs me that it is 
very common in parts of Western Szechuen between 7000 and 
10,000 feet. He also says the young shoots change to red the 
