TORREYA TRACHELOSPERMUM 599 



they possess extraordinary beauty." The kernels of the nuts have an 

 agreeable, slightly resinous flavour. 



Nearly allied to the above is T. GRANDIS, Fortune, of which a few 

 plants are in cultivation. There is a specimen about 8 ft. high at Kew which 

 is quite hardy. Its leaves are shorter and thinner in texture than those of 

 T. nucifera, and when crushed do not emit a pungent aromatic odour as in 

 that species. This comparatively odourless character distinguishes it from 

 all other Torreyas. The tree was discovered in China by Fortune in 1855; 

 it attains there the same height as T. nucifera does in Japan. 



TRACHELOSPERMUM. APOCYNACE^E. 



The two species grown out-of-doors are evergreen twining shrubs, with 

 opposite, leathery leaves, and more or less hairy stems, exuding a milky 

 juice when cut. Flowers in slender, stalked cymes, very sweetly scented. 

 They both need wall protection, and may be grown in a light loamy soil. 

 When young or newly planted, a little peat added is an advantage. 

 Increased by July or August cuttings. 



T. CROCOSOTOMUM, Stapf. 



An evergreen climber at least 15 ft. high, of dense, much branched habit; 

 the young shoots very hairy, and the hairs persisting more or less for several 

 years. Leaves leathery, opposite, oval or slightly ovate; f to 2 ins. long, 

 I to | in. wide; mostly blunt at the apex, dark glossy green, smooth; stalk 

 \ in. or less long. Flowers yellowish white, fragrant, produced in July and 

 August in slender terminal cymes, 2 to 2^- ins. long. Corolla with a tube 

 \ in. long, and with five spreading obovate lobes, giving it a diameter of 

 f in. Calyx-lobes erect, narrow, pointed. 



Probably a native of China. All the plants in cultivation have originated 

 from one which for many years has grown on the west wall of the herb 

 garden at Kew, but whose origin and history have, been lost. It has smaller 

 leaves and yellower flowers than T. jasminoides, and is readily distinguished 

 when in flower by the erect calyx-lobes, which in T. jasminoides are larger 

 and distinctly turned back. It has never been injured by any frosts of 

 the last thirty years at Kew. 



T. JASMINOIDES, Lemaire. 



(T. divaricatum, K. Schumann ; Rhyncospermum jasminoides, Lindley, Bot. Mag., t. 4737.) 



An evergreen twiner, growing 10 or 12 ft. high, young shoots hairy. 

 Leaves oval-lanceolate, i^ to 3^ ins. long, \ to I in. wide; tapering at both 

 ends, the tip blunt, downy beneath when young, becoming smooth; dark 

 glossy green above; stalk about \ in. long. Flowers very fragrant, produced 

 in July and August on smooth, slender-stalked cymes, i| to 2 ins. long, 

 usually on short lateral twigs. Corolla scarcely I in. across, pure white, 

 five-lobed, the lobes spreading, wavy; the tube ^ in. long, narrowed towards 

 the base. Calyx with five lanceolate reflexed lobes. 



Native of China; introduced by Fortune from Shanghai in 1844. Usually 

 seen in greenhouses, where its flowers are prized for their fragrance, this 

 species can also be grown on walls along the south coast and in the west. 



Var. VARIEGATUM has shorter, broader leaves, bordered and blotched with 

 creamy white. 



