LEUCOTHOE 



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Leaves smooth and leathery, narrowly lanceolate ; 3 to 5 ins. long, i to i| ins. 

 wide ; with a long tapering point, rounded or shortly tapered at the base, 

 spine-toothed ; dark lustrous green above, paler and with scattered hairs 

 beneath ; stalks ?. to -r! in. long. Flowers produced during May, crowded on 

 axillary racemes I to 2 ins. long, occasionally in panicles 3 ins. long. 

 Corolla I in. long, slenderly pitcher-shaped, white ; sepals narrowly ovate, 

 pointed ; flower-stalks very short. 



Native of mountainous regions in the south-eastern United States ; introduced 

 in 1793. When fully in blossom, a well-grown plant with its long arching 

 branches, laden for 12 to 18 ins. of their length with racemes, is decidedly 

 handsome. But owing to the flowers being all produced on the lower side, 

 the branch often requires elevating for its full beauty to be seen. During the 

 flowering season it is worth while to 'elevate a few of the branches by means 

 of forked sticks. 



Var. ROLLISONI. A variety with smaller, narrower leaves, 2 to 4 ins. long, 

 2 to | in. wide. 



LEUCOTHOE CATESB^EI. 



L. DAVISI^:, Torrey. 



(Bot. Mag., t. 6247 ; Andromeda Davisise, C. K. Schneider?) 



An evergreen shrub, i to 3 ft. high in cultivation, of neat, very sturdy 

 habit ; branches erect, stiff, perfectly smooth. Leaves ovate-oblong, rounded 

 or slightly heart-shaped at the base, short-pointed or blunt at the apex, 

 lustrous dark green, of firm texture, \\ to 2^ ins. long, f to i in. wide ; very 

 slightly and evenly toothed ; stalk \ to J in. long. Flowers produced in 

 mid or late June in a cluster of erect racemes springing from the end of the 

 shoot and its terminal leaf-axils, each raceme 2 to 4 ins. long, and furnished 

 with short, scattered bristles. Corolla nodding, pitcher-shaped, white, J in. 

 long, five-toothed. Sepals short, ovate, edged with a few glandular teeth ; 

 flower-stalk \ in. long. 



Native of the Sierra Nevada, California, at 5000 ft., where it was originally 

 discovered, and introduced in 1853 by William Lobb, for Messrs Veitch, and 

 at first distributed by them as " Leucothoe Lobbii." Subsequently found by 



