512 SINOFRANCHETIA SINOWILSONIA 



glabrous, glacous beneath, 3 to 6 ins. long, short-pointed, entire. Flowers 

 unisexual, dull white, small, inconspicuous, and of no beauty, produced 

 in pendent racemes about 4 ins. long, on short leafy shoots. Fruits about 

 the size of a grape, blue-purple, and borne alternately at intervals on an 

 elongated stalk 8 ins. or more long. 



Native of Central and W. China, up to 7000 ft. ; introduced by 

 Wilson for Harvard University, U.S.A., and raised at Kew in 1908. 

 This climber is allied to Holboellia and Stauntonia, but unlike them is 

 quite hardy. Plants less than one year old survived the trying winter of 

 1908-9 without injury. Its value in gardens will consist in its vigorous 

 habit and fine glaucous foliage; also in its fine fruits, should they be 

 developed with us. 



The genus was named in memory of Adrien Rene Franchet, once 

 attached to the Paris Museum of Natural History, and one of the most 

 capable botanists who ever worked at the Chinese flora. He died 

 Feb. 14, 1900. 



SINOMENIUM DIVER*SIFOLIUM, Diets. MENISPERMACE^:. 



(Gardeners' Chronicle, Nov. 30, 1912, fig. 178 ; Cocculus heterophyllus, Hemsley ; 

 C. variiformis, Hort.) 



A deciduous climber, up to 20 ft. high, with twining stems. Leaves 

 very variable in shrpe, perhaps normally ovate-cordate and entire, but 

 sometimes almost kidney-shaped, sometimes lobed like Catalpa ovata, 

 sometimes deeply three- or five-lobed (with lanceolate lobes), sometimes 

 shallowly so ; often with a lobe on one side only ; the base often truncate ; 

 2 to 6 ins. long, i^ to 4j ins. wide; deep bright green, smooth, with three 

 or five conspicuous veins radiating from the base ; stalk slender, 2 to 6 ins. 

 long. Flowers small, yellow, unisexual, about J in. wide; sepals six, in 

 two series of three each, downy beneath ; petals very small ; the flowers 

 are borne in slenderly pyramidal panicles 6 to 12 ins. long, the main and 

 secondary flower-stalks downy. Fruit about the size of a small pea, 

 globose, black, covered with blue bloom. 



Native of Central and W. China, also of Japan, where it has been 

 known for at least fifty years, but does not appear to have been introduced 

 to cultivation until Wilson sent it from China to the Coombe Wood 

 nursery in 1901. It first flowered with Mr P. D. Williams in Cornwall, 

 in 1912. It appears to be perfectly hardy and a vigorous grower, and is 

 an interesting addition to the few members of the moon-seed family in 

 cultivation (see Cocculus and Menispermum). 



SINOWILSONIA HENRYI, Hemsley. HAMAMELIDACE^E. 



A deciduous shrub or small tree, occasionally 20 ft. high and upwards 

 in China. Leaves broadly elliptic to obovate, 3 to 6 ins. long, 2 J to 4^ ins. 

 wide; rather like those of a Tilia, but short-stalked, strongly veined 

 beneath, and covered there with starry hairs (like the young shoots), 



