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PRINSEPIA PRUMNOPITYS 



on the shoots of the year, oblong lanceolate; i|- to 3 ins. long, about 

 t> in. wide ; produced in clusters on the year-old shoots. Flowers borne 



singly in the leaf-axils on 

 slender stalks -J- in. long ; 

 they are solitary, or two 

 to four together; each 

 flower J to |- in. diameter, 

 petals five, bright yellow, 

 roundish, tapered to a 

 short claw. Fruit red and 

 juicy, f in. long, ripening 

 in August. 



Native of Manchuria ; 

 first described from dried 

 material and in the 

 absence of fruit in 1886 

 as Plagiospermum, but 

 afterwards, when fruit 

 became available, it was 

 found to belong to Prin- 

 sepia, a small North 

 Asiatic genus allied to 

 Prunus. It was intro- 

 duced from France in 

 1908, and appears to be 

 hardy. Our illustration 

 is from a German source, 

 and should this shrub 

 flower in this country as 

 freely as there depicted, 

 it should be of value in 

 gardens. In Feb. 1916 I 

 had a spray from Glasnevin 

 very prettily in flower. 



PRINSEPIA SINKNSIS. J r 



PRUMNOPITYS ELEGANS, Philippi. TAXACE.E. 



, (Podocarpus andina, Poeppig.~) 



An evergreen tree, 40 to 50 ft. high in a wild state, but in gardens 

 as yet usually a pyramidal or rounded bush less than half as high ; very 

 dense in habit; young shoots green, quite smooth. Leaves linear, 

 \ to ij ins. long, T \ to \ in. wide; tapered to a short stalk at the base, 

 bluntish or abruptly pointed at the apex ; dark green above, with a dull 

 glaucous strip each side the midrib beneath ; they are densely and spirally 

 set on the shoot (ten to fifteen to the inch), falling the third year. Male 

 flowers in axillary and terminal panicles about i in. long. Fruit yellowish 

 white, plum-like, -J in. long, consisting of a stone surrounded by a thin 



