This handsome shrub belongs to the natural order Sapindaceae. It is a native of Japan. Although it was introduced several years ago, it is yet seldom met with; but there is no collection complete without it. A few years ago the writer saw a noble specimen of it, fifteen to eighteen feet high, in full bloom, with hundreds of flowers on it. The blooms are a creamy white and deliciously fragrant. The flowers are racemose, terminal, fruit large, three-celled, inflated like a bladder, but rarely perfecting more than two or three seeds. It is perfectly hardy in this latitude. It may be increased by layers, and I have no doubt would do well grafted on the American variety, S. trifolia.