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Their shining lanceolate dark-green leaves, silvery beneath, 

 are 2-6 in. long. They bear abundant small yellow star-like 

 flowers, which are succeeded by dark-red drupes. Both 

 species are moderately hardy. 



C. Cotoneaster is a hardy shrub, 3-6 ft. high, with rigid 

 much-interlaced wiry branches and orbicular or oblong leaves, 

 white beneath. When covered with the starry yellow flowers, 

 or the orange, yellow, or red drupes, looking like tiny apples, 

 the effect is very pleasing. C. Cheesemanii is intermediate 

 between C. Cotoneaster and C. buddleoides. All the species grow 

 readily even in dry soil. 



(8.) Dacrydium laxifolium. 



This lemarkable conifer varies in height from about I in. 

 to i ft. or 2 ft. ' It has slender trailing branches, which bear 

 either the juvenile spreading short narrow leaves, or the adult 

 imbricating scale-like ones. The fruit is a small nut seated on 

 a red fleshy receptacle. Being a high-mountain plant, it is 

 quite hardy. Its most common station is wet peaty ground. 



(9.) The Species of Dracophyllum. 



These are frequently erect slender-stemmed shrubs with 

 long needle-like rather grassy leaves, as already described 

 for D. longifolium. Several are worth cultivation on account 

 of their peculiar form, but usually they are not easy to grow. 

 The following are suitable for gardens : D. Urvilleanum and 

 its allies, D. Sinclairii (a species with rather broad leaves), 

 D. uniftorum, D. aciculari folium, D. paludosum, and D. subu- 

 latum. Hardly any of the species are yet in cultivation. 

 Most would be hardy. 



(10.) The Species of Drimys. 



D. axillaris (horopito) is a half-hardy shrub or, at times, 

 a tree, with black stems and glossy elliptic-ovate leaves 

 2 5 in. long. The closely allied D. colorata, with yellowish- 

 green leaves blotched with red, and glaucous beneath, is a 

 hardier and perhaps more striking shrub, which, moreover, can 

 bear a good deal of exposure. D. axillaris demands a moist, 

 shady position. The leaves ot both species being hot when 

 chewed, have led to the name of " pepper- tree." 



