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leathery and quite glabrous. The main leafstalk is 1} to 33 in. 
long, the stalk of the leaflets } to 1 in. long. Flowers unisexual, 
the males produced in a cluster of corymbs 3 or 4 in. wide at 
the end of short shoots of the previous year or in their Jeaf-axils ; 
petals dull purple, oblong, 4 in. long, 4 in. wide; stamens with 
pale purple filaments scarcely longer than the anthers. Female 
flowers borne usually three or four together in corymbs springing 
from the lower leaf-axils of the young shoots, the peduncle being 
up to 6 in. long, pedicels 1 to 2 in. long. They are rather larger 
than the male flowers, the fleshy petals greenish white tinged with 
purple; styles three, erect, cylindrical, } in. long. 
The female flowers were dusted with pollen, but owing probably 
to several severe late frosts last spring, no fruit developed. It 
is described by Wilson as purple, oblong, about 2} in. long and 
+ in. wide, the white pulp it contains being edible, rather sweet, 
but watery and insipid. Seeds jet black. As in many of the 
Lardizabalaceae, the fruits are the most conspicuous, interesting 
and ornamental feature of the plant. H. coriacea is - readily 
distinguished from H. latifolia by the uniformly trifoliolate leaves ; 
_in the latter the leaves are often quinquefoliolate. 
Leucopogon Fraseri, A. Cunningham. [Epacridaceae.} 
At Kew and over the average climate of the British Isles, 
this is the only member of the Epacris family that can be grown 
in the open air. It is a native of New Zealand and according to 
Cheeseman is found there at altitudes up to 4,500 ft. A plant 
was obtained from Messrs. Cunningham and Fraser of Edinburgh, 
in 1911, which has grown ever since without protection and quite 
uninjured by cold. 
It is a dwarf evergreen shrub only 3 to 6 in. high, forming 
a dense tuft of more or less erect, very slender, minutely 
pubescent stems, which when young are almost hidden by the 
leaves. Leaves sessile, alternate, overlapping each other, 4 to 
i in. long, ', to ;', in. wide, obovate-oblong, abruptly narrowed 
to a slender, bristle-like apex, dull green, minutely ciliate. 
Flowers very fragrant, solitary, produced in the leaf-axils in 
May and June. The corolla is a slender tube 3 in. long, pinkish 
white, hairy inside, with five short, triangular lobes. The four 
brown anthers are attached by very short filaments to the corolla 
tube. Style slender, pubescent. Fruit an oblong drupe, 4 in. 
long, orange yellow, juicy, sweet and edible. 
Besides its habitats in New Zealand it has others on the 
summit of Mt. Wellington, Gippsland, Australia, and on the 
Hampshire Hills, Tasmania. It is by no means a showy plant, 
_ but it has botanical interest and makes a neat, low tuft for the 
Rock Garden. The hay-like scent of the Epacris-like flowers 
is also pleasing. 
i pendens, Rehder and Wilson. [Sabiaceae.] 
Of the several new species of Meliosma introduced from China, 
M. pendens is the most nearly related to M. cunerfolia. It is a 
deciduous shrub 10 to 16 ft. high, very similar in general aspect ~ 
