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XLIV.—GARDEN NOTES ON NEW TREES AND 
SHRUBS 
(With Plate.) 
W. J. Bean. 
VIII.— New Chinese Species. 
Berberis verruculosa, Hemsley and Wilson [ Berberidaceae]. 
Among the numerous species and forms of Berberis which recent 
exploration in China has added to our collections, none is more 
distinct and in habit at least more pleasing than this. It is an 
evergreen bush of low, sturdy, very neat habit, probably never 
uch more than two feet high. One of the most distinctive 
characters of the plant is the roughness of the young stems due to 
a dense covering of small, dark, warty excrescences. Leaves 
ais arranged in fascicles along the branch, elliptic-oblong, 4 to 
14 inches long; spine-tipped and spiny-toothed, coriaceous, dark 
shining green above, glaucous beneath, margins revolute. Flowers 
golden-yellow, short-stalked, solitary or in oa lowered fascicles. 
Fruit black covered with a blue bloom. The species was discovered 
in Western China and introduced by Wilson in 1904. Four years 
later it flowered with Messrs Veitch at Coombe Wood, and to them 
Kew is indebted for a healthy plant lately added to the collection. 
Carpinus polyneura, Franchet | Betulaceae]. 
This beautiful hornbeam is only represented in cultivation by a 
single tree at Kew, growing at the north entrance of the Rho 
dendron Dell and now about 16 feet high. It was ‘(0 Foon Mead 
sent by Mr. A. Henry, in 1889, from Central China. It is a small 
tree 30 feet high with slender branches pendulous at the ends which 
ive the tree a very elegant aspect. Leaves ovate, acute, slightly 
cordate at the base, 1 to 24 inches long, 4 to 1 inch wide, sharply 
(occasionally doubly) dentate, dark shining green and a. 
with silky down on the midrib and veins beneath. 
leaves differ from those of other hornbeams in cultivation in fatty 
at and scarcely plicate. In its leafiless state the tree is 
distinguished by the narrow, linear, silky stipules which persist 
through the winter and until the appearance of the new leaves. 
The tree at Kew flowers regularly and has borne clusters of fruit 
but the seed formed has hitherto been infertile. 
Corylus eee var. chinensis, Burkill in Journ. Linn, Soc, xxvi., 
503 ee lifer 
7 deciddpae trees are more andsdand 3 in leaf and habit or more 
nirenting in frui he “Constantinople Nut “— Corylus 
is "the are species of Corylus hitherto in cultivation which makes a 
genuine tree. A new arborescent variety, however, has recently 
been introduced from Central China, viz., the var. chinensis of 
Burkill, Originally discovered by Henry, in Szechuan in 1888, 
nuts were first sent home by Wilson in 1901 from which a number 
of young trees were raised by Messrs. Veitch at Coombe Wood, and 
thence obtained for Kew. Mr. Wilson informs me that this tree is 
usually met with 50 to 60 feet high, but that he has seen it over 
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