Reevesia
(named in compliment to John Reeves, F.L.S., of Canton, a zealous botanist, and the introducer of one of the species). ORD. Sterculiaceae. A genus consisting of two (?) species of greenhouse trees, natives of tropical and sub-tropical Eastern Asia. Flowers white, in terminal, corymbose panicles; calyx clavate-campanulate, irregularly three to five-fid; petals clawed. Leaves entire, coriaceous. R. thyrsoidea, the only species introduced, is a very handsome tree, requiring treatment similar to that recommended for the greenhouse species of Sterculia (which see).
R. thyrsoidea (thyrse-flowered). fl., petals white or cream-coloured, five-clawed; peduncles and pedicles clothed with stellate pubescence. July. l. alternate, broadly lanceolate, acuminate, petiolate, entire, penninerved; petioles slender, dilated upwards. h. (under cultivation) 3ft. to 4ft. China, 1826. (B. M. 4199; B. R. 1236.)