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along the ground. Leaves opposite, oval or oblong, J to J in. long, 

 scarcely half as wide, with the margins so much recurved as to almost 

 hide the under-surface ; smooth and dark glossy green above, smooth or 

 sometimes with a whitish mealy down beneath ; stalk one-fourth to half as 

 long as the blade. Flowers rosy or nearly white, about J in. diameter, 

 produced in May in short terminal clusters, two to five together. Corolla 

 erect, bell-shaped, with five lobes. Calyx with five deep lobes half as 

 long as the corolla. Stamens five, shorter than the corolla. Seed- 

 vessel a dry* capsule, with two or three divisions, many-seeded. 



Native of the Alpine summits and sub- Arctic regions of the three 

 northern continents, and the only species known. Found on the 

 Scottish highlands. It resembles Leiophyllum in its opposite leaves 

 and small pink flowers, but is readily distinguished by its five (not ten) 

 stamens included within the corolla. It needs a peaty soil. In the 

 south of England it does not thrive well ; the summer is usually too hot 

 and dry for it. Some cool damp spot on the lower part of the rock 

 garden should be selected for it 



LOMATIA OBLIQUA, R. Brown. PROTEACE^:. 



An evergreen shrub or small tree, 20 or more ft. high ; young stems 

 slightly downy. Leaves alternate, leathery, ovate, i to 4 ins. long, 

 f to 2j ins. wide; wedge-shaped or rounded at the base, blunt at the 

 apex, coarsely round-toothed; as they unfold they are covered with 

 tawny down, but afterwards become perfectly smooth, and of a deep 

 glossy green; stalk brownish, about one-fourth the length of the blade. 

 Flowers (not yet seen in this country) borne in axillary racemes 2 to 

 3 ins. long. 



Native of Chile, Peru, etc. ; introduced by Mr Elwes in 1902. It 

 has hitherto proved hardy at Kew, planted on an outside border near 

 one of the plant-houses, and is 9 ft. high; but it would no doubt be 

 better suited if it had the same conditions as Embothrium in Cornwall. 

 L. FERRUGINEA, Brown (L. pinnatifolia, Ifort.), is a particularly hand- 

 some evergreen bush of rounded habit, 10 to 12 ft. high, as seen at 

 Castlewellan, Co. Down, and in other mild parts of the British Isles. 

 The leaves are much divided, fern-like, blue-white beneath ; the flowers, 

 rosy red and white, are borne on such short stalks that they are largely 

 hidden by the luxuriant foliage. Native of Chile. The Lomatias are 

 allied to Grevillea. 



LONICERA. HONEYSUCKLE, WOODBINE. CAPRIFOLIACE^:. 



A genus of about 150 deciduous or sometimes evergreen species 

 of bushy or climbing shrubs, with usually peeling bark, named by 

 Linnaeus after Adam Lonicer, a German naturalist who flourished in 

 the middle part of the sixteenth century. The leading generic characters 

 are : Leaves opposite, shortly stalked or stalkless ; flowers five-parted, 

 subtended by bracts and' usually bractlets; calyx five-toothed; corolla 





