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XII.—GARDEN NOTES ON NEW TREES AND 
SHRUBS. : 
W..J;: Bean. 
(With Plate.) 
XIX.—New Chinese and Japanese spectes, 
Celastrus flagellaris, Ruprecht. Celastraceae. _ 
Although described by Ruprecht as long ago as met a 
climber is a comparatively new plant in cultivation. I 
obtained for Kew from a French nursery a few years ago and 
last year bore fruit freely. It is a deciduous climbing shrub 
found wild in Manchuria, Corea, Japan and N. China. The 
stems are slender, armed at each node with a pair of hooked 
spines about } in. long, and are described as growing 25 ft. 
igh. Leaves. roundish to 
four-celled capsule, globose when unripe, about 1 in. in diameter, 
and terminated by t i 
bursts that the shrub is most crnamental, the inner face of it 1s 
eis acm yellow, whilst the aril, or coat of the seeds is 
scarlet, 
The species is perfectly hardy and of vigorous habit. 
Celastrus hypoleucus, Warburg. (C. hypoglaucus, Hemsley.) 
Celastraceae. ; 
it as strikingly beautiful when laden with fruit in autumn. 
t 1s a vigorous deciduous climber with purplish, glabrous 
“young shoots. The leaves are oblong, oval or obovate, 4 to 
n. long, ‘and 2 to 3 in. wide on our young plants; they 
are glabrous and dark green above, and usually very glaucous 
beneath. The flowers 
long, small and yellowish-ereen. The fruits are globose and 
about the size of a large pea until they burst, when they show 
