202 TREES AND SHRUBS 



bear small white flowers and are evergreen. We 

 have seen the former 12 feet and the latter 20 feet 

 in height. Other species are also grown. 



LIBONIA FLORIBUNDA. Brazil. The favourite 

 greenhouse flowering shrub, bearing drooping scarlet 

 and yellow blossoms. Tresco and one mainland 

 garden. 



LITSEA GENICULATA. Southern United States. A 

 deciduous shrub or tree, bearing white flowers in 

 May. The largest in England is probably one at 

 Menabilly, 25 feet in height. 



MELALEUCA HYPERICIFOLIA. Australia. An ever- 

 green shrub, bearing scarlet bottle-brush flowers. 

 Tresco. 



MELIA AZEDARACH. Tropical Asia. The Bead 

 tree, so called from the seeds being used for rosaries, 

 bearing much - branched panicles of fragrant lilac 

 flowers. Leaves bipinnate and deeply serrated. 

 Rosehill. Evergreen. 



MELIANTHUS MAJOR. Cape of Good Hope. A 

 well-known plant in sub-tropical gardening. At 

 Rosehill it has reached a height of 12 feet. 



METROSIDEROS ROBUSTA. New Zealand. An 

 evergreen tree, bearing clusters of brilliant crimson 

 flowers at the extremities of the shoots ; in this it 

 differs from Callistemon, whose flowers encircle the 

 branchlets some distance below the extremities. 

 Tresco ; 30 feet in height. 



MITRARIA COCCINEA. Chili. An evergreen shrub, 

 bearing bright-scarlet flowers. This is to be found 

 6 feet in some gardens. 



