ONONIS ORIXA 109 



consists of five-pointed, awl-shaped lobes covered with glandular hairs. Pod 

 glandular-hairy, with the calyx persisting at the base. 



Native of the Pyrenees southward into Spain ; introduced in 1816. This 

 is a pretty dwarf shrub, flowering from mid-May onwards. It bears its erect 

 racemes very freely, the larger ones carrying ten or twelve pairs of blossoms. 

 It does not ripen seed freely here, but can be increased by cuttings of half- 

 ripened wood. It must have a sunny position, and the soil should be light 

 loam. Suitable for the rock garden It is perfectly hardy. 



O. FRUTICOSA, Linnceus. 

 (Bot. Mag., 1.317.) 



A deciduous shrub of spreading habit, 2 or 3 ft. high, with pale, crooked 

 branchlets. Leaves trifoliolate, short-stalked, clasping the stem by the stipule 

 at the base ; the stipule is terminated by four slender teeth two long and two 

 short ; leaflets narrowly obovate, ^ to I in. long, to in. wide ; not downy, 

 but wrinkled, unevenly toothed, all stalkless. Flowers f in. long, pale pinkish 

 purple, borne (usually three on a stalk) on a short terminal panicle 2 to 3 ins. 

 long. Pod | to i in. long, stout, covered with bristly hairs, and containing 

 two to five seeds. 



Native of S. Europe, especially in the Dauphine Alps ; known in our 

 gardens since 1680. It flowers from June to August, and should only be 

 propagated by seeds, which it ripens in plenty. Well distinguished from the 

 other two by the shape of the leaflets, and by all three of them being stalkless. 



O. ROTUNDIFOLIA, LinnCBUS. 

 (Bot. Mag., t. 335.) 



A deciduous, half-shrubby species, \\ to 2 ft. high, with very glandular- 

 hairy, zigzag stems ; the leaf-stalk, flower-stalk, and calyx are also glandular- 

 hairy. Leaves trifoliolate, I to 3 ins. long ; leaflets roundish, sometimes 

 obovate, the terminal one the largest, stalked, and \ to i^ ins. long ; side ones 

 half to two-thirds as large, stalkless ; all are toothed and hairy, especially 

 below and on the margins. Flowers f in. long, pink, produced from the 

 axils of the leaves, three together towards the end of a stalk \ to 2^ ins. long. 

 Pod very hairy, I to i|- ins. long. 



Native of S. and Central Europe ; cultivated for more than three hundred 

 years in England. Increased by seeds. 



ORIXA JAPONICA, Tkunberg. RUTACE.E. 



(Evodia ramiflora, A. Gray ; Celastrus japonica, Koch?) 



A deciduous shrub of graceful, spreading habit, with long slender 

 branches, and 6 to 8 ft. high. Leaves aromatically scented, obovate or 

 oblanceolate ; 2 to 5 ins. long, i to 2 ins. wide ; dark green, quite entire, 

 and smooth except on the nerves of the young leaves. Flowers unisexual ; 

 the parts in fours; males in short racemes produced from the joints of 

 the previous year's wood, green, scarcely \ in. across, with downy stalks. 

 Female flowers on separate plant, solitary. Fruits about f in. across, 

 brown, and composed usually of four compressed, one-seeded carpels. 



Native of China and Japan. As this pleasing and elegant shrub bears 



