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and in 1892 one in the rock garden produced a few fruits. It leaves fall 

 about their fourth year. 



P. CHILINA, Richard. 

 (P. andina of gardens not Poeppig.) 



A unisexual evergreen tree, 40 to 60 ft. high, but in this country a shrub 

 except in the south and west ; branchlets green, terete, quite smooth. 

 Leaves persisting two years, falling the third, linear, often sickle-shaped, 

 tapered at the base, pointed at the apex ; 2 to 3! ins. long, to -f s in. wide ; 

 dark rather bluish green above, paler beneath, with numerous rows of 

 minute stomata. Male flowers in a cluster of slender spikes I to i^ ins. 

 long. Fruits egg-shaped, in. long, solitary or in pairs on a stalk ^ to f in. 

 long and standing out at right angles from it. 



Native of the Andes of Chile ; introduced in 1853. At Kew it was killed 

 during the frosts of February 1895, but survived in Messrs Paul's nursery 

 at High Beech, on higher ground, whence a fresh stock was obtained that 

 has not been injured since. Its chief value is in the south-western counties. 

 There is a male tree in Mr Robert Fox's garden, Penjerrick, Cornwall, 

 30 ft. high, which makes a very striking pyramidal mass of foliage. It 

 is frequently called " P. andina " in gardens, a name that is really a synonym 

 of Prumnopitys elegans, a tree very distinct from the present. 



P. MACROPHYLLA, D. Don. 



An evergreen small tree, 25 to 50 ft. high, usually shrubby in this 

 country, and forming a densely leafy, rounded bush. Leaves linear, tapering 

 at both ends ; 3 to 4 ins. long, -^ to J m - wide ; of firm, rather leathery 

 texture, perfectly smooth, the midrib prominently raised above and below ; 

 margin thickened below ; dark glossy green above, yellowish green beneath. 



Native of China and Japan. According to Sargent it is a common hedge 

 plant in Tokyo gardens, and is often clipped into fantastic shapes. It is 

 fairly hardy in the south of England. It may be confused with P. chilina, 

 but has larger, broader leaves of a yellower green, and they have not the 

 sickle-like shape frequent in the Chilean species. In Japan the leaves 

 are as much as 7 ins. long by ^ in. wide. 



In Cornwall and Ireland there may occasionally be seen P. NUBIGENA, 

 Lindley, a Chilean species very distinct from any of the preceding, but 

 unfortunately only hardy in our mildest districts. The leaves (very closely 

 set on the branchlet) are i to if ins. long, \ to ^ in. wide, tapering 

 to a sharp point, of a rather pale, charmingly fresh green, with a broadish 

 band of stomatic lines each side the midrib beneath. The young shoots 

 are bright yellow. The best trees I have seen are two at Kilmacurragh, Co. 

 Wicklow, about 25 ft. high, nearly as much through. 



POLIOTHYRSIS SINENSIS, Oliver. 



(Hooker's Icones Plantarum, t. 1885.) 



A deciduous tree, up to 30 or 40 ft. high, with ovate, slenderly 

 pointed leaves 4! to 6 ins. long and 2j to 5 ins. wide; rounded or 

 sometimes heart-shaped at the base, very downy beneath, becoming 

 smoother as the season advances; stalk slender, downy, J to if ins. long. 



