SCHINUS SCHIZANDRA 503 



Pistacia and Rhus. The species described below were long called 

 "Duvaua," being distinguished from Schinus proper by the simple leaves. 

 S. MOLLE, Linnizus, the so-called "pepper tree," is very extensively culti- 

 vated in S. France, Italy, etc., where its much divided, pinnate leaves and 

 drooping branches make it a singularly graceful tree, laden in autumn 

 with beautiful clusters of red berries about the size of small peas. It is 

 not hardy with us. Native of S. America. 



The two following species do .not require a rich soil, making shorter, 

 hardier growth, and flowering better where it is rather poor. They do 

 not transplant well. Propagated by cuttings made in August, and placed 

 in gentle heat. 



S. BONPLANDIANUS, Marchand. 



(S. dependens var. subintegra, Engler.') 



This evergreen shrub has long been grown on a wall at Kew, where, 

 however, it was cut to the ground in the winter of 1908-9, when S. dependens 

 var. ovata in the open was not injured. Compared with the ordinary S. 

 dependens, its leaves are considerably longer and larger, being linear-oblong, 

 from | to 2 ins. long, one-fourth as wide, entire or sparsely toothed. Flowers 

 small, \ in. across, greenish white, produced in small cylindrical racemes 

 less than i in long during May. First introduced from Buenos Ayres by 

 Mr Low of Clapton, about 1850. It is a probably a more, northern and 

 tender form of S. dependens, which is very widely spread over temperate 

 and subtropical S. America. 



S. DEPENDENS, Ortega. 

 (Duvaua dependenSj De Candolle ; Bot Reg., t 1573.) 



An evergreen shrub, up to 15 ft. high in this country, with stiff, spine- 

 tipped twigs. Leaves alternate, obovate, ^ to i in. long, rounded at the 

 apex, tapering to a very short stalk at the base, usually entire. Flowers very 

 numerous, in short axillary racemes about \ in. long, produced in May from 

 the spine-tipped twigs of the previous year; the individual flower greenish 

 yellow, \ in. wide. Fruit in dense clusters, completely hiding the branches, 

 each one a dry, deep purple berry about the size of a peppercorn. 



Var. OVATA, Bot. Mag., t. 7406, as S. dependens (Duvaua ovata, Lindley}. 

 This differs from the type in its leaves being smaller, more ovate than 

 obovate, usually more or less toothed or even with a distinct lobe at each 

 side near the base. 



Both these shrubs are natives of Chile, and have long been in cultivation. 

 Var. ovata would appear to be the hardier of the two, and although it was 

 cut to the ground at Kew in February 1895, it sprang up again freely from 

 the base. Its flowers have no very bright colour to recommend them, but 

 they are borne in such profusion that the shrub gives quite a pleasing effect. 

 It ascends to nearly 14,000 ft. on the mountains of Chile and Bolivia. 



SCHIZANDRA. MAGNOLIACE^;. 



A small genus of more or less aromatic shrubs, native of N. America 

 and E. Asia. Two hardy species have for some time been in cultivation, 

 and they "have latterly been augmented by new ones introduced by Wilson 



