6 ADDISONIA 
of the New York Botanical Garden there are a number of the 
Japanese flowering dogwoods. It was from one of these, obtained 
in 1904, that the illustration here presented was prepared. 
There are two woody genera of the dogwood family with invo- 
lucres of large showy bracts, Benthamia, three species, of Asiatic 
distribution, and Cynoxylon, two species, of the United States. 
Benthamia is nearly related to Cynoxylon, but differs in the ap- 
pearance of the flowers after the leaves and in the fleshy fruit, 
made up of many united berries; in Cynoxylon the berries are 
separate. Of the three species of Benthamia, one, Benthamia capi- 
tata, is found in the Himalayan region, another is known only from 
Hongkong, and the third is the one here illustrated. Of these only 
the last is hardy in this latitude and as far north as Massachusetts. 
It should be more generally cultivated than it now is. In the col- 
lections of the New York Botanical Garden it has flowered annually, 
the first time in June, 1913. 
GEORGE V. NASH. 
EXPLANATION OF Pate. Fig. 1—Flowering branch. Fig. 2.—Head of 
flowers, longitudinal section. Fig. 3. —Flower, x 4. 
