40 SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



42612 to 42630— Continued. 



tains. Stems grow to a height of IS inches from the rather swollen 

 rooting base ami are leafy all the way up. Narrow leaves 5 to 10 inches 

 long, bright green above, paler or suffused or streaked with red-brown 

 beneath. Tbe spike is 4 to 8 inches high, flowers rather remote; bracts 

 green or red-purple; flowers 1£ to 2 inches long. Calyx tubular, red- 

 purple. Corolla golden yellow. (Adapted from Curtis's Botanical Mag- 

 azine, pi. 6991.) 



42626. Rubus lineatus Reinw. Rosacea?. Bramble. 

 A strong suberect herb with softly pubescent branches. Leaflets 



three to five, subsessile, coriaceous. Flowers in axillary short heads 

 and terminal elongate silvery panicles. Numerous small red drupes. 

 (Adapted from Hooker, Flora of British India, vol. 2, p. 333.) 

 For previous introduction, see S. P. I. No. 3017S. 



42627. Salvia campanulata Wall. Menthace;e. 



An herb with ascending hirsute stem and axillary or terminal racemes 

 of yellow flowers with purple dots. From Gossain Than, India. 

 (Adapted from Wallich, 1'lantae Asiaticae Rariores, vol. 1, p. 67, 18S0.) 



42628. Sarcococca saligna (Don) Muell. Arg. Buxaceae. 

 (S. pruniformis Lindl.) 



" An evergreen shrub, 2 to 3 feet high ; stems erect, smooth. Leaves 

 3 to 5 inches long, one-half to 1£ inches wide; narrow-lanceolate, with 

 a long drawn-out point; base narrowly wedge shaped; smooth, glossy, 

 with a marginal vein on each side extending all round the leaf; stalk 

 one-fourth to three-eighths of an inch long. Flowers greenish white, in 

 short axillary racemes opening in winter and spring. Berries egg 

 shaped, one-third to one-half inch long, purple. Native of the Himalayas 

 and China, the form from the latter being probably the hardier. The 

 Himalayan plant has long been cultivated indoors at Kew, but the 

 Chinese one was introduced by Wilson about 1902 and has so far proved 

 quite hardy and a vigorous grower. From Sareoeocca humilis and S. 

 ruscifolia it is. distinguished by the absence of down from the stems, as 

 veil as in stature and length of leaf." (W. J. Bean, Trees and Shrubs 

 Hardy in the British Isles, vol. 2, p. 500.) 



42G29. STROBILANTHES PECTINATUS (Wall.) T.Anders. Acanthacea?. 



A spreading shrub up to 10 feet high with heads of wide funnel- 

 shaped, purple flowers H to 2.1 inches across. An important under- 

 shrub in the Himalayan forests. (Adapted from Hooker, Flora of 

 British India, vol. J, p. fr.}6; and Gamble, A Manual of Indian Timbers, 

 2d >d. p. 519.) 



42630. Viburnum cylindricum Buch.-Ham. Caprifoliacea. 



An evergreen shrub or. in some of its native habitats, a tree -10 to 50 

 feel high. Flowers white, quite tubular, about one-fifth of an inch long, 

 produced from July to September in usually 7-rayed cymes 3 to 5 

 Inches across. The cymes are rendered pretty by the protruded bunch of 

 lilac-colored stamens. Fruit egg shaped, one sixth of an inch long, black. 

 Native of the Himalayas and China. Most of the plants now in cultivation 

 are Chinese, and these are probably hardier than the Indian ones. They 

 have at any rate succeeded very well in the Coonibe Wood Nursery. 



