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scales on the lower naked part of the shoot. Corolla yellowish white, 

 about I in. across ; petals five. Fruit globose, and about the size of 

 a cherry, yellow, tinged with rose on the sunny side, the rounded sepals 

 persisting at the base. 



Native of Japan ; introduced in the early part of last century, but 

 probably incapable of withstanding our hardest winters, for it had nearly 

 or quite disappeared from gardens until reintroduced a few years ago. 

 It has withstood 20 of frost at Kew, but is no doubt better adapted for 

 the south-west counties than for our average climate. 



TETRACENTRON SINENSE, Oliver. TROCHODENDRACE^:. 



A deciduous tree, 50 to 90 ft. high, allied to and resembling 

 Cercidiphyllum japonicum, especially in having, on the year-old branches, 

 short or obsolete twigs, each producing a single leaf and an inflorescence. 

 It differs, however, in its invariably alternate leaves. Young branches 

 dark, glabrous, freely marked with pale lenticels. Leaves ovate or 

 heart-shaped, long-pointed, with usually five or seven prominent nerves 

 radiating from the base ; the margins evenly set with blunt teeth. Flowers 

 numerous, stalkless, on a spike 4 to 6 ins. long, very small, yellowish; 

 sepals, stamens, and carpels four. 



Native of the province of Hupeh, China, where it was originally 

 discovered by Henry ; introduced by Wilson for Messrs Veitch in 1901. 

 It is apparently quite hardy, although I have seen it much injured by late 

 spring frosts, and in a young state is of elegant growth, but its flowers 

 have no ornamental value. 



TEUCRIUM FRUTICANS, Linnceus. SHRUBBY GERMANDER. 



LABIATE. 



An evergreen shrub of diffuse habit, naturally 7 or 8 ft. high, stems 

 square, and covered with a close white felt. Leaves opposite, ovate, 

 to ij ins. long, about half as wide, broadly wedge-shaped or rounded 

 at the base, bluntish at the apex ; dark, rather bright green above, white, 

 with a close felt beneath, fragrant when crushed ; stalk J in. or less long. 

 Flowers produced during the summer and autumn singly in the axils of 

 the small uppermost leaves or bracts the whole forming a raceme 

 3 or 4 ins. long. Calyx J in. long, with five ovate, pointed, leaflike lobes, 

 white beneath. Corolla pale purple or lavender-coloured, forming a 

 short tube at the base, to which the four long stamens are attached, then 

 developing into a large five-lobed lip (like the lip of an orchid flower in 

 shape), the basal pair of lobes the smallest and palest ; flower-stalk white, 

 \ in. or less long. 



Native of S. Europe ; introduced by the then Duchess of Beaufort in 

 1714. It is very pretty, and distinct among shrubs because of the pure 

 white under-surface of the leaf and the curiously shaped labiate flower. 



