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CuLTURAL Norss. 
Mr. BEAN has supplied a few hes as to the culture and general 
habits of the plants under discus 
Osmanthus Aquifolium is a Tory ase hardy evergreen, forming 
a rounded bush up to 8 feet in height, and as much in diameter. 
With the general aspect of a small-leaved holly, it is of more 
graceful form and, from its dwarfer habit, is better adapted for 
positions where space is restricted. It has produced under culti- 
vation several variegated forms, but the best of its varieties is 
atropurpureus ; this was raised at Kew in the “seventies ” of last 
century. The whole shrub has a purple tinge, and the quite young 
twigs and leaves in their black shininess have the aspect of having 
bent vi ag in tar. It is, in our experience, the hardiest of all 
the 
Dr. Stapf observes that the leaves of the species are occasionally 
entire. Such leaves occur on all plants that are old enough; they 
are characteristic (as in the holly) of the adult condition, but they 
only occur on the upper part of the shrub. Twigs, taken off and 
rooted, remain constant and make neat bushes; they are sold es 
nurserymen as O. myrtifolius. All the forms flower in autumn a 
their clustered, small, white flowers are very fragrant. Propagation 
is best effected by means of cuttings in late summer, giving them 
mild bottom heat. The practice “of erafting this shrub on the 
oval-leaved privet is unnecessary and objectionable. 
O. Fortunei, as might be inferred from the supposed parentage 
given above, is not quite so hardy as O. Aquifolium, for one of the 
parents (O. fragrans) is a cool greenhouse shrub, It has, never- 
theless, survived over 30° of frost at Kew, and although the trying 
winter of 1908-9 déinidied our plants of all their leaves, the sam 
happened to holm oaks and other evergreens, and, as with sree 
the Osmanthus quite recovered in the following summer. It can be 
increased by cuttings like O. Aquifolium, but does not strike root 
so readily. All the fore like a good open loamy soil, and thrive 
best in a sunny sheltered position. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE. 
A. Osmanthus Aquifolium. 1, leaf; 2, hermaphrodite flower ; 
3, calyx and pistil of same; 4, waals flower; 5, calyx and rudi- 
mentary aut of same. B. O. Fortunei. 6, leaf ; 7, male flower ; 
8, calyx and rudimentary pistil of same. c. Ee fragra ans. 9, leaf 
(dentate state); 10, hermaphrodite flower ; 11, calyx and pistil of 
same ; 12, male flower ; 3 13, calyx and wie tered pistil of same. 
XIX.—DIAGNOSES AFRICANAE: XLI. 
1251. Loranthus gets cca rrens triplinervius, Baker et Sprague in 
Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. vol. vi. sect. 1, p. 385, anglice, ined. [Loran- 
thaceae ~ sigiecaimhage' affinis L. Holstii, — a quo foliis 
triplinerviis, umbellis 4-6-floris recedit. 
