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This is a deciduous spiny shrub of lax spreading habit, now about 
6 feet high with M.de Vilmorin at Verriéres. Leaves alternate, 
oblong-lanceolate, 14 to 2 inches long, 4 inch wide, produced in 
fascicles on the year-old branches along with the flowers. Flowers 
bright yellow, $ to ? inch across, produced singly on slender 
peduncles 1 inch long in few-flowered fascicles. Fruit red, 
resembling a small plum. 
A native of Manchuria, and appears to be a very attractive 
flowering shrub of a type quite new to gardens. 
Poliothyrsis sinensis, Oliver [Bixaceae]; Hooker’s Icones Plant- 
arum, t. 1885, 
There is already in gardens a very interesting Bixaceous tree— 
Idesia polycarpa—to which this new Poliothyrsis bears a close 
superficial resemblance, ; 
he latter is a small tree, 30 feet or so high, with variable but 
more or less ovate leaves 6 to 9 inches long, 3 to 6 inc es wide, 
pointed and shallowly toothed. The flowers are greenish-white and 
borne in a large, erect panicle. The fruit is a dry, ellipsoid capsule, 
¢ inch long, and thus very distinct from the globose, dark red berry 
of the Idesia. ; 
Its fine broad leaves should make it a desirable lawn tree. It is 
Stauntonia, to which this new plant is alli Neither oe 
is really har y away from a wall or similar protection, w — 
five plants of the Sinofranchetia in the nurse Kew passe 
although they were only young seedlings planted out the previous 
sprin ; 
etki is a large deciduous climber which covers trees 40 ae por 
ts main stem is often 3 to 4 inches thick, and, after the fashion 7 
its allies, the branches uphold themselves by twining ; ae ae the 
ever support is available. The leaves are ternate, ee at pu 
petiole 6 to 9 inches long. The flowers are Goll W. oe aking; 
Inconspicuous, and of no beauty. The fruits, are his 8 inches 
they are borne in threes at intervals on an elongatec weer an average 
or more long, each fruit blue-purple and about the size 0 
gra 
é mikivs of Central and Western China, ap ae (OW rt eg 
duced for Harvard University. Monotyp Pe 
ppeitowileonia Henryi, Hemsl. [Hamamelidaceae] ; 
nt é a i 
A Soltek: soak or smal] tree occasionally over eg! “ 
height. The leaves are broadly elliptic to obovate, rathe 
those of a lime, 3 to 6 inches long, strong 
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ly veined beneath and 
