PHILLYREA PHLOMIS 



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I to i. 1 , ins. wide; pointed, sharply toothed, rounded or even slightly heart- 

 shaped at the base ; the smaller ones arc often oval, indistinctly toothed, 

 broadly tapered at the base. Young wood and flower-stalks minutely downy. 

 Flowers dull white, in short axillary clusters. Fruit blue-black, roundish or 

 orange-shaped, scarcely in. long. It is sometimes a small tree 15 ft. or 

 more high. 



Van ILICIFOLIA (P. spinosa, Miller). A form with strongly toothed leaves, 

 i to \\ ins. long ; ovate and rounded at the base. 



Native of S. Europe and N. Africa ; cultivated in England in the sixteenth 

 century. 



Of P. MEDIA, Ltftnceus, there is little to be added to what is said above. 

 It is scarcely specifically distinct from latifolia, but the plant to which the 

 name is attached has smaller leaves, ovate or oval, to \\ ins. long, slightly 



PHILLYREA DECORA. 



and bluntly toothed (not sharply as in latifolia), or quite entire. The form 

 known as BUXIFOLIA has small, almost wholly entire leaves. There is a good 

 bush 6 or 8 ft. high in Messrs Paul & Son's nursery, Cheshunt. 



PHLOMIS FRUTICOSA, Linnceus JERUSALEM SAGE. LABIATE. 



(Dot. Mag., t. 1843.) 



A vigorous evergreen shrub ; branchlets soft, herbaceous, stout, 

 square, thickly covered with grey, branched hairs. Leaves opposite, 

 dull green, wrinkled, and with prominent veining like common sage ; 



