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Cercis racemosa, Oliver. Leguminosae. 
Discovered by Prof. A. Henry about 1886 and described and 
named by Prof. Oliver in Yobkir's Icon. Plant. xix. t. 1894, 
this very distinct species of Judas tree was not introduced until 
some twenty years later, when Mr. Wilson sent home seeds 
collected by him in Western Hupeh. It is a deciduous shrub 
or small tree occasionally 30 ft. high, its young shoots thickly 
set with lenticels and more or less pubescent. ‘The leaves have 
the characteristic Cercis form, being cordate, 21 to 5 in. long, 
three-fourths as wide; but from those of all other cultivated 
species, however, is found in the racemose arrangement of the 
flowers, all the others having them in fascicles. The racemes 
are pendulous, 2} to 4 in. long, the rachis and pedicels very 
success. Wilson observes that it is always growing at lower 
2 Gi than C. racemosa, which we have every reason to believe 
will prove quite hardy. 
Disanthus cercidifolia, Maximowicz. Hamamelidaceae. 
cordate at the base, 2 to 41 in. long, almost as wide, three- or 
five-nerved. In summer they are deep green, but for a week or 
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twenty years ago, but is still very rare and does not appear to 
have flowered under cultivaticn in this country. It does not, 
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a woody capsule containing several shining, dark brown com- 
Pressed seeds, 1 in. long. mY 
is shrub is a native of Japan where it flowers in October. 
At Kew we have found it rather tender when young, but a yes 
ow igh growing in association with, and sheltere by, 
tall heaths has not suffered from cold since it was obtained ten 
years ago. 
| Magnolia officinalis, Rehder § Wilson. Magnoliaceae. . 
This Magnolia, at first considered to be the Chinese form of 
