M. Crepin suggests the possibility of some of these being — 
of hybrid origin between the two species. The plant — 
which flowered at Kew, and of which a specimen is here — 
figured, is very much larger in all its parts than the m- — 
digenous ones in the Herbarium, in some of which its — 
flowers are not larger than the area occupied by the 
stamens in the plate, and are in crowded, short panicles, 
with almost glandular-tomentose very short peduncles and 
pedicels and calyx-tube. The sepals, too, of the Kew 
specimen are much shorter, broader, and more ovate than 
in the ordinary state of the plants when they are often | 
drawn out into caudate points, and are cut or pinnatifid — 
on one or both sides. 
The discoverer of R. Lucix was, according to Crepin, — 
M. Callery, whose specimens gathered in China in 1884 — 
are in the Herbarium of the Jardin des Plantes. It — 
appears to be very common in Japan, where, according to — 
Maries, it ascends the mountains to 7000 ft. elevation. 
There are specimens in Kew Herbarium from Corea and 
Manchuria, from various places in Hast China to as far 
south as Hong Kong ; Hance collected it at Whampoa; Tate — 
in the Quantung Provinces ; and Oldham in Formosa. j 
Plants of R. Luciw were received from Professor Sar- | 
gent, Director of the Harvard Arboretum, Boston, U.S.A, — 
mn 1891,* which flowered freely in August, 1894, in the 
Arboretum of the Royal Gardens, Kew, and fruited in the — 
following October. It is, of course, perfectly hardy. : 
According to Professor Sargent, who gives a description | 
and excellent figure in “ Garden and Forest,” adding that — 
ht. Lucie was sent by Mr. Louis Spiith of Berlin in 1888 to — 
the Harvard Arboretum, where it produces prostrate stems — 
ten to fifteen feet long in a single season, and covers the 
ground as with a dense mat. Also that it has been very — 
largely used by the Parks Department of the City of Boston — 
for covering rocky slopes, &c., where its remarkable _ 
a hardiness, the brilliancy of its lustrous foliage and — 
e beauty of its flowers, which appear when most shrubs — 
we thes of bloom, certainly recommend it to the attention — 
e cultivators of hardy plants.” In another volume: 
* It must, however, have been introduced into England at an earlier periods 
for there is a good . “slog ‘ . raphe 
ENacombe in F380. specimen of it in the Kew Herbarium received from a 
