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 FENDLERA rupicola. 



Native of South-western North America, 



Nat. Ord. Saxifragace.e. — Tribe Hydrangea. 



Genus Fendlera, Ewjelm. & A. Gr.; {Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. i. 



p. 643.) 



Fendlera rupicola; frutex erectns, dense ramosns, 3-6 ped. altus, ramig 

 rigidissimis cortice striato, foliis in ramulis lateralibus confertis oppositis 

 subsessilibns rigide coriaceis deciduis lineari-lanceolatis majoribus circiter 

 pollicaribus acutis trinerviis supra scaberulia subtas sericeis fioribus 

 albis l^-lf poll, diametro solifariis vel tenuis ramulis brevibus lateralibus 

 terminantibus, pedicellis brevibus puberulis ebracteolatis, calycis pubes- 

 centis 4-fidi segmentis ovatis subobtusis valvatis, petalis 4 perigynis 

 imbricatis extus puberulis ciliolatis ovato-spathulatis unguiculatis venosis 

 circiter 9 lin. longis deciduis, staminibus 8 uniseriatia cum petalis in- 

 Bertis erectis, filamentis petaloideis apice bicruribus lobis linearibus 

 acutis erectis ultra antberam productis antheris introi-sis, ovario serai- 

 supero glabra 4-loculari, loculis multiovulatis, Btylo pubescenti, capsula 

 fere omnino supera Crustacea vel fere lignosa oblongo-ovoidea 5-7 lin. 

 longa septicide 4-valvi, valvis mucronatis, loculis oligospermis, seminibus 

 in loculis paucis pendulis imbricatis oblongis 2i-3j lin. longis, testa 

 crassa laxa dorso basique alato, ernbryone parvo recto angustissimo 1-lJ 

 lin. longo £ lin. lato in albuminis axe posito, cofcyledonibus radicula 

 supera longioribus. 



F. rupicola, Engelm. §• A. Gray in Smithton, Contrib. vol. iii. (PL Wright, 

 vol. i.) p. 77, t. 5, et vol. v. (PL Wright, vol. ii.) p. 64. Coulter, Man. 

 Pot. Pocky Mts. p. 95. Greene in Bull. Torr. Pot. Club, vol. viii. (1881), 

 p. 25. Ret). Port. 1891, p. 42, f. 12, et 1899, p. 129, f. 44. Garden $ 

 Forest, vol. ii. (1889), p. 112, f. 98. 



Fendlera is a genus of two known species, the second 

 being F. utahensis, Greene ( Whipplea utahensis, S. Wats.) 

 in the publication cited above. Both, as Prof. Greene 

 states, grow on the dry, sunburnt rocks of the interior 

 desert region of the south-west — that is of Texas, New 

 Mexico, Arizona, and Utah. This information gives some 

 clue to the treatment they should receive under cultivation. 

 All writers who are familiar with F. rupicola in a wild 

 condition, describe it as a very attractive, highly floriferous 

 shrub, and Prof. Greene says of it: "A beautiful shrub of 

 the mountains of Texas and New Mexico putting forth in 

 May a profusion of large white or rose-coloured flowers, 

 which give it the aspect of a small peach-tree." 



According to Prof. C. S. Sargent {Garden fy Forest, 

 vol. ii. (1889), p. 112, f. 9S) it had already, at that date, 

 been some years in cultivation in the Arnold Arboretum, 

 where it was quite hardy, flowered profusely, and ripened 



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