PIERIS 



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toothed, smooth, and dark glossy green, of firm, leathery texture. Flowers 

 produced during May in a cluster of panicles, terminating the shoots of 

 the previous year, and from 4 to 6 ins. long and wide. Corolla pendent, 

 white, pitcher-shaped, |- to in. long, contracted at the mouth, where are 

 five shallow, rounded teeth ; calyx-lobes i in. long, green, narrowly ovate ; 

 flower-stalk j in. or less long, with a pair of bracts. 



Native of the Himalaya at 6000 to 10,000 ft., from Nepal eastwards. This 

 shrub is seen at its best in Cornwall, where it grows and blossoms to 

 perfection. At Kew it is hardy in sheltered places, but does not grow 

 more than 6 to 8 ft. high, flowering uncertainly. It is the most beautiful 

 of this genus. The same shrub, or a slightly differing form of it, has been 

 found in W. Hupeh, China, by Wilson. 



PIERIS JAPONICA. 



P, JAPONIC A, D. Don. 



(Gardeners' Chronicle, 1882, i., fig. 120; Andromeda japonica, Thunberg^ 



An evergreen shrub, ultimately 9 or 10 ft. high, of bushy habit, and 

 clothed to the ground with branches ; young shoots usually smooth. Leaves 

 leathery, oblanceolate or narrowly oval, usually widest above the middle, 

 tapering towards both ends ; i^ to 3^ ins. long, \ to f in. wide ; shallowly 

 toothed, dark glossy green above, paler beneath, smooth on both surfaces. 

 Flowers in a terminal cluster of slender pendulous racemes each 3 to 6 ins. 

 long ; corolla pitcher-shaped, to in. long, much narrowed towards the 

 mouth, where are five shallow, rounded teeth ; calyx-lobes lanceolate, scarcely 

 half as long as the corolla ; flower-stalk in. long, smooth. 



