64 SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



42183 to 42199— Continued. 



42187. Caeagana micbophyela Lam. Fabaceae. Altagana. 

 "Native of north-cent i'al Asia from Siberia to China; introduced in 



1789. It flowers in May and June and is readily distinguished from all 

 other species by the number and small size of its Leaflets, the smallest 

 scarcely one-eighth inch long. It is a shrub of graceful habit, much 

 wider than high i L6 feel in diametei at Kew), the branches being long, 

 slender, bu1 little divided, and ultimately more or less pendent. Grafted 

 on standards of Caragcma arborescens it makes a small tree, but sucker 

 growths from the stock are often troublesome. It is suitable as a speci- 

 men for a lawn." (IF. J. Bean, Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British 

 Isles, vol. 1, p. 291.) 



42188. Counts BKETSCHNEimcBi Henry. Cornacere. 



"A species with the young wood of a blood-red color; leaves opposite, 



lanceolate-ovate, dark green above, glaucous beneath; fruits blackish blue. 

 ( Jhina." (Kew Bulletin, WOO, p. }/..) 



42189. Hydbangea bbetschneidebi Dipp. Hydrangea* 



"A deciduous shrub. 8 to 10 feet high, forming a sturdy bush, old bark 

 peeling; young branches smooth. Corymbs flattened. 4 to 6 inches across, 

 with a considerable number of large sterile flowers at the margins; these 

 are three-fourths to 1\ inches across, the three or four sepals rounded or 

 obovate. white, afterwards rosy. The small, perfect 11" i ;•- are dull 

 white. Native of China; introduced from the mountains about Peking in 

 18S2, by Dr. Bretschneider. Plauted in a sunny position in good soil, 

 this makes a really handsome shrub, flowering in June and July, per- 

 fectly hardy and always vigorous." i li'. •/. Bean, 'Iras and Shrubs Hardy 

 in tJ/c British Isles, vol. 1, p. 62J/.) 



42190. Hydrangea xanthoneuba wir.soxn Rehder. Hydrangeacese. 



"A deciduous shrub, 8 feet or perhaps more high, of loose, thin habit, 

 sending out long slender branches. Leaves iu threes, ovate or oval, with 

 a short, slender point, dark green and smooth above, pale beneath. In- 

 florescence a flatfish, corymbose panicle, 5 or (i inches across, margined 

 with creamy wldte, sterile flowers lj inches across. Perfect flowers one- 

 fourth inch across, dull white. Native of central China; introduced 

 for Messrs. Veitch by Wilson about 1904. It is a shrub of elegant and 

 distinct habit and with considerable beauty in flower. It has, perhaps, 

 some affinity with Hydrangea bretschneideri, bul is, as yet, imperfectly 

 known in gardens." (11'. •/. Bean, Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British 

 Isles, vol. 1, p. 631.) 



"The variety differs from the species (which has bright reddish brown 

 bractlets with the bark without lenticels and soon separating into thin 

 flakes) in having the new bractlets of each year grayish yellow while 

 those of the previous year are grayish or light brown and marked with 

 pale lenticels and the young leaves slightly appressod pubescent be- 

 neath." (Sargent, Plantae Wilsonianae, part 1. i>. 87.) 



42191. Hl.DYSAKIM ESCUrJENTUA) I.etleb. Fa ha ce.-e. 



"An ereel Siberian Hedysarum with yellowish white flowers. Accord- 

 ing to Gmelin, the root is eaten by the natives of Jakutsk. 

 42192. Hedysarum flavescens Kegel and Schmalh. Fabacea. 



A suberect branching Ilcilysarum with yellow flowers, closely related 

 to Hedysarum neglectum and //. dasycarpum. From the mountains of 

 Kokan at Lake Iskander-Kul, at 7,000 feel altitude. 







