92 MYRTUS NEILLIA 



M. LUMA, Molina (Eugenia apiculata, De Candollej E. Luma, Berg., Bot. 

 Mag., t. 54)- I n Ireland this handsome evergreen succeeds remarkably 

 well. At Kilmacurragh, Co. Wicklow, there is a bush 20 ft. high and 25 ft. 

 in diameter, but it can only be grown against a wall in the average climate 

 of this country. At Kew, it has more than once been killed, even with that 

 protection. Branchlets clothed with a fine reddish down. Leaves i to I in. 

 long, rather more than half as wide, oval, usually tapered at the base, and 

 terminated by a short, abrupt point ; dark dullish green, paler beneath, with 

 a well-defined marginal vein. Flowers- 'white, about f in. diameter. Fruit 

 black, sweet, insipid. Introduced by W. Lobb from Chile. It differs from 

 M. Ugni in having four petals; roundish, not reflexed sepals; and more 

 conspicuous stamens. 



M. UGNI, Molina. Myrtilla. A Chilean evergreen, with leathery ovate 

 leaves very like those of the myrtle, but with smaller flowers, shorter inclosed 

 stamens, and reflexed, awl-shaped sepals. Petals five. It is sometimes grown 

 on walls, and is only about as hardy as the myrtle itself. It bears a blue- 

 black, juicy, and very palatable fruit. (See Bot. Mag., t. 4626.) Syns, 

 Eugenia Ugni, Hooker; Ugni Molinae, Turczaninoiv. 



NANDINA DOMESTICA, Thunberg. BERBERIDACE^E. 

 (Bot. Mag., t. 1109.) 



An evergreen shrub, with erect, unarmed, and unbranched stems, 

 6 to 8 ft. high in this country, even taller in warmer ones, the lower part 

 covered with the bases of fallen leaves. Leaves i to ij ft. long, much 

 divided (doubly or trebly pinnate), composed of numerous, linear- 

 lanceolate leaflets, which are i| to 4 ins. long, long-pointed, quite 

 smooth, tinged with red when young, becoming purplish in autumn. 

 Flowers in an erect panicle, 8 to 15 ins. long borne at the top of the stem, 

 each flower \ in. across, white, with large yellow anthers. Berries two- 

 seeded, globular, J in. in diameter, bright red normally, but in some forms 

 more purplish red; the stigma persisting, as in barberry fruits. 



Introduced in 1804 from Japan, where it is much cultivated, but 

 really a native of China. Its chief merit in this country is its elegant 

 bamboo-like form, for its flowers are not very showy, nor are its fruits 

 freely produced. It has lived outside at Kew for many years in a 

 sheltered spot, but has never really succeeded. It requires the greater 

 warmth of the soulh-western counties, where, given a good moist soil 

 and shelter from wind, it thrives admirably. It is best propagated from 

 seeds, which, however, do not, as introduced, germinate freely. Cuttings 

 put in a mild heat will root in time, but they too are. slow. The 

 young plants should be grown under glass for a year or two. Most of the 

 plants in cultivation have been introduced direct from the nurseries of 

 Japan. 



NEILLIA. ROSACES. 



A genus represented on both sides of N. America, in the Himalaya, 

 Burmah, Manchuria, and China. It is allied to Spinea (under which 

 generic name some of the following species were at one time known), but 

 differs in the shining, very albuminous seeds. It is itself now frequently 



