Botanical Magazine for June.— Tlie plants figured ai^ 



Hypericum Ascyron, Linu. (t. 8557); Vitis Tliunhergii, Sieb, and 

 Ziicc. (t. 8558); Deutzia mollis, Dntliie (t. 8559); Tricyrtis 

 stolonifera, Matsuinura (t. 8560), and Stapelia Leendertziac, 



N. E. Brown (t. 8561). 



One of the finest of the St. John's Worts in the very large- 

 flowered form of Hypericum Ascyron, which has been raised at 

 Ivew from seed obtained in Korea and presented by Mr. M. L. 

 de Vilmorin, Its erect stems reach a height of 3 or 4 feet, and 

 produce in July and August terminal corymbs of deep yellow 

 flowers which often exceed 4 inches in diameter. In the ordinary 

 form the flowers are from 2 to 2| inches across. The species is 

 widely distributed in North America and in Temperate Asia, and 

 has been cultivated in this country since 1774. 



The publication of a figure of the true Vitis Thunhergii provides 

 means for distinguishing this plant from another which, though 

 quite distinct, Is repeatedly met with in living collections under 

 the name of F. Thunhergii^ but which is really a very fine form of 

 F. Coignetiae^ Pulliat. The plant now figured has much smaller 

 deeply lobed leaves. It is a native of China and Japan, and 

 though quite hardy at Kew, it does not grow so vigorously here 

 as in the garden of Canon Ellacombe, at Bitton, near Bristol, 

 whence the material for the illustration was obtained. 



Deutzia mollis has been Introduced from Central China by 

 Messrs. James Yeitch and Sons, in whose nurseries at Coombe 

 Wood the plant which supplied the material for the figure was 

 grown. It is a distinct and striking species, easily recognised 

 among the Deutzias in cultivation by the soft felt-like indumentum 

 especially of the under-surface of the leaves. At Kew the plant is 

 subject to injury from late spring frosts. 



The Tricyrtis is a native of Formosa, where seeds were collected 

 by Mr. H. J. Elwes and Mr. W. B, Price. Some of these were 



and a plant raised from them 

 provided the specimen figured. The genus belongs to the Liliaceae, 

 and includes about ten species, which are distributed from Japan 

 and Formosa to the Central and Eastern Himalaya, The wild 

 plants of T. stolonifera observed In Formosa, where the species is 

 found at altitudes of about 7000 feet, were only about a foot high, 

 but the plants at Kew, grown in a cool house, reached a height of 

 two feet. 



Slapelin Leendertziae is a remarkable species. Instead of 

 having a flat saucer-shaped corolla characteristic of the genus, tliis 

 species has an elongated campanulate corolla, the tube of which 

 is 2 to 2} inchosjong and 1^ to 2|- inches across. In .S^. nohilis, 

 figurerl A t. 7TT1 of the Botanical Magazine, there is also a 

 distinct corolla-tube, but it is much shorter than in the species now 

 illustrated, which was discovered near Heidelberg in the Transvaal 

 by Miss R. Leendertz, now Mrs. R, Pott, by whom a plant has 

 been sent to Kew, where it has flowered. The figure was prepared 

 from a plant which flowered in the garden of Mr, W. E. Ledger, 

 of Wimbledon, in August, 1912. 



presented to Kew by Mr. Elwes, 

 provided the specimen fiirured. Th 



