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40139 to 40201— Continued. 



introduced in 1904. A strikingly elegant, free-growing shrub, very 

 hardy and floriferous, showing its flowers to good advantage by pro- 

 ducing them on the upper side of the long, feathered branches. It 

 flowers in May and June, and grows probably 8 feet or so high." 

 (W. J. Bean, Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles, vol. 2, 

 P. U-) 



40187. LONICERA QUINQUELOCULARIS TRANSLUCENS (CaiT.) Zabel. 



" This is very closely allied to and perhaps only a form of L. quin- 

 quelocularis. The leaves are longer pointed, more markedly ciliate, 

 and the upper surface rougher than in quinquelocularis ; the corolla 

 tube also is shorter and more protuberant on one side. A sturdy 

 bush, 10 feet high, that flowers freely." (W. J. Bean, Trees and 

 Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles, vol. 2, p. 5'/.) 

 40188. Picrasma quassioides (Don) Bennett. Simaroubaceae. 



"Picrasma ailanthoides Planchon. A slender, deciduous tree, 20 to 40 

 feet high, with very handsome young bark of a reddish brown, conspicu- 

 ously marked with yellow spots. Leaves pinnate, 10 to 15 inches long, 

 glabrous, consisting of 9 to 13 leaflets, which are glossy green. 1 to 4 

 inches long, ovate, unequal at the base, round or pointed at the apex, 

 sharp toothed at the margin, and with a very short stalk. Flowers 

 green, one-third inch across, in a lax, branching corymb 6 to 8 inches 

 long, and often nearly as wide; stalks downy. Fruit a berry, about the 

 size of a pea, rather obovoid, with the calyx still attached. This tree, 

 according to some authorities, is a form of P. quassioides, a species 

 which, in that sense, is spread in a wild state from Japan and China 

 through the Himalayas as far south as Java. This is, no doubt, extend- 

 ing the specific limits of P. quassioides too far. No tree from Java 

 would be as perfectly hardy in our climate as is this. The above de- 

 scription is based on trees growing at Kew which were introduced from 

 Japan in 1S90. They have flowered and borne fruit several times, and 

 young plants have been raised from the seed. They have no beauty 

 of flower or fruit, but of the foliage in autumn Sargent observes, ' few 

 Japanese plants 1 saw are as beautiful as this small tree.' The leaves 

 turn first orange, then scarlet. The whole tree is permeated by a singu- 

 larly bitter principle. Its nearest ally among hard trees is Ailanthus." 

 (W. J. Bean, Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles, vol. 2, p. 165.) 

 40189 and 40190. Prunus spp. Amygdalacea\ 

 40189. Prunus maximowiczii Rupr. 



"A deciduous tree, up to 20 or 30 feet high, with a slender trunk; 

 branchlets downy, the down persisting through the first wiuter. 

 Leaves ovate or oval, pointed at the apex, rounded at the base; 

 1$ to 3 inches long, three-fourths to li inches wide ; doubly toothed, 

 downy on the midrib and veins beneath and with scattered hairs 

 above; stalk one-third to one-half inch long, downy. Flowers rather 

 dull yellowish white, about five-eighths inch across, produced in mid- 

 May on stalked racemes 2 to 3$ inches long, remarkable for the 

 large leaflike bracts with which they are furnished; from (i to 10 

 flowers occur on a raceme, each flower on a downy stalk one-half 

 to three-fourths inch long; calyx hairy, with pointed, toothed 

 lobes. Fruit globose, one-sixth inch wide, shining, at first red. then 

 black; ripe in August. Native of Korea [Chosen], Manchuria, and 



