560 STYRAX SILEDA 



corolla white, very downy, narrow-oblong. Fruit roundish, with the remains 

 of the style at the top, and the woolly calyx beneath. 



Native of Greece and Asia Minor up to elevations of 3,600 ft. The 

 fragrant resin known as "storax" is obtained from this shrub by wounding 

 the stem. A correspondent in Greece informs me that a worm attacks the 

 wood, and that the dust resulting from its borings is used by the natives as 

 incense. The shrub is suitable for Cornwall and similar localities. 



S. VEITCHIORUM, Hems ley and Wilson. 



A small tree, 12 to 15 ft. high; young shoots, leaf-stalks, and calyx covered 

 with a close, grey, starry down. Leaves lanceolate, with a long tapered 

 point, and a wedge-shaped or slightly rounded base, remotely and shallowly 

 toothed; 3 to 5 ins. long, i to if in. wide; of thin texture, downy on both 

 surfaces, but especially on the midrib and veins beneath; stalk to \ in. 

 long. Flowers white, nearly i in. across, produced at the end of the shoots 

 and in the uppermost leaf-axils on the current season's growth, forming a 

 group of slender panicles each 4 to 8 ins. long. Calyx minutely five-toothed. 



Native of Hupeh, China, where it was discovered and introduced for 

 Messrs Veitch in 1900 by Wilson. Mr Wilson only saw it once, and I only 

 know it from his specimen (2015) preserved at Kew, and the living plants 

 raised at Coombe Wood, where it is hardy and vigorous, but has not yet 

 flowered. The leaves of cultivated young trees are more uniformly downy 

 than the flowering specimens collected in China, which have only tufts in 

 the vein-axils beneath, but Mr Wilson says they are true. 



S. WlLSONl, Rehder. 



(Bot. Mag., t. 8444.) 



A deciduous shrub, sometimes of tree-like form, 6 to 10 ft. high, of much- 

 branched, twiggy habit; young shoots furnished with starry down. Leaves 

 ovate, 75- to i in. long, half to two-thirds as wide; rounded or broadly tapered 

 at the base, often bluntish at the apex, the lower half not toothed, the 

 terminal part either three-lobed or sparsely toothed; green and minutely 

 downy on both sides when young. Flowers nodding, pure glistening white, 

 to | in. across, produced singly on a stalk about \ in. long from the leaf- 

 axils, and at the end of short lateral twigs in June. Corolla lobes ovate- 

 oblong, \ in. long, pointed, covered with minute starry down outside; calyx 

 green, scurfy, with lance-shaped lobes ^ in. long. Stamens clustered in an 

 erect columnar group, in. high, their stalks white, the anthers yellow. 



Native ofW. China; introduced by Wilson when collecting for Harvard 

 University in 1908. It is a very pretty shrub, remarkable in flowering when 

 a few inches high and when only two or three years old. I am afraid it 

 will prove rather tender in some parts of the country, at least when young, 

 but it is likely to be a delightful shrub for the warmer parts. In June, 1913, 

 I saw in Mr Chenault's nursery at Orleans, a plant 6 ft. high in full blossom. 

 It was one of the most beautiful objects I have ever seen. 



FRUTICOSA, Forskal. SHRUBBY GOOSEFOOT. 



CHENOPODIACE^E. 



(Chenopodium fruticosum, Linnceus?) 



A sub-evergreen shrub, 3 or 4 ft. high, with smooth, erect branches. 

 Leaves alternate, linear, nearly cylindrical, fleshy, J to \ in. long, blue- 



