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arranged on a columnar receptacle which^ after tlie flowers have 

 faded, elongates, becomes fleshy and 2 or 3 ins. long. On this the 

 fruits are borne in a sort of spike. The fruits have not been seen 

 in cultivation, but they are said to be mucilaginous and eaten by 

 the Chinese. 



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Spiraea arborea, Bean (Sorhana arhorea^ C K. Schneider) 

 [Ko&aceae]. 



This is a very promising addition to the Sorharia (or pinnate- 

 leaved) section of the genus S^iraea^ previously represented in 



cultivation by S, Lindleyana, S. Aitchisonii, and S. sorhifolia. 

 Judging by Wikon's description this new species is the most tree- 

 like of all the Spiraeas, being sometimes 30 ft. in height. It has, 

 palpably, a close relationship with S. Lindleyana, but, besides 

 being a more robust plant, is distinguishable by the hairs beneath 

 the leaflets being stellate (simple in >S'. Lindleyana)y also by the 

 shorter calyx-tube and longer stamens. As may be seen from our 

 illustration, the general effect of the panicles is much the same, 

 the flowers being of the same ivory shade of white. Wil 



Hupeh 



long ago as 1900 



during the first Yeitchian journey, but did not apparently intro- 

 duce it to cultivation until 1908 when travelling for Harvard 

 University. It is a useful addition to a class of shrubs which it is 

 very desirable to augment in gardens, viz., those that flowei in 

 July and later. 



Tilia Oliveri, Szyzylowicz [Tiliaceae]. 



There have been for many years in cultivation two lindens 

 whose leaves are silvery underneath, namely, Tilia petiolaris and 

 T. tomentosa {T. argentea). A third has latterly been added 

 in T. Oliveri, It was first discovered by Henry in the 

 mountains north of the Yangtze-kiang as long ago as 1888. 

 Wilson introduced it for Messrs. Veitch some twelve or thirteen 

 years later to the CoombeWood Nurserv, where it was propagated, 

 and whence it has since been acquired for Kew. It is a deciduous 

 tree attaining 50 ft. in stature, its young shoots glabrous. Henry 

 describes the leaves on wild trees as 3 to 4 ins. long and nearly as 

 wide, but on young, cultivated ones they are as much as 6^ ins. 

 long and 5^ ins. wide; the upper surface is dark green, glabrous; 

 the lower one clothed with a close white felt. Flowers have 

 probably not yet been borne by cultivated plants, but the cymes on 

 wild specimens are 3 ins. long, carrying about twenty flowers. 

 Fruit globose, | in, in diameter, apiculate, warted and covered 



with grey tomentum. 



Tilia ^Oliveri is succeeding -very well under cultivation and 

 promises to be at least as ornamental a tree as T. tomentosa. From 

 that species and T. petiolaris, the only other limes with which it 

 is likely to be confused, it is easily distinguished by its quite 

 glabrous young branchlets. 



Vibiirnum Harryanum, Rehder [Caprifoliaceael, 

 An evergreen shrub ultimately 6 to 8 ft. high of bushy habit; 

 young shoots clothed with a minute dark pubescence. Leaves 

 orbicular to obovate, or broadly ovate, tapered at the base, rounded 



