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are smaller, stiffer, and not so prickly on the stalks as in ordinary 

 T. Fortunei, and it produces suckers freely. The flowers of this palm 

 are those of T. Fortunei, and Henry has named it var. SURCULOSA, but 

 it is possibly the T. NANA, Beccari (see Webbia, vol. iii., p. 187). 



TRICUSPIDARIA. 



A Chilean genus of two species, both evergreen shrubs or small trees, 

 with alternate leaves, and solitary, bell- or urn-shaped flowers produced 

 on pendulous, thickened stalks from the leaf-axils. They both delight 

 in a cool, moist, peaty soil, or a loam free from lime, and can be increased 

 by cuttings of half-ripened wood placed in a close frame with gentle 

 bottom heat. Excellent and attractive shrubs in the milder counties, they 

 need protection near London. 



T. DEPENDENS, Ruiz and Pavon. 



(Dot. Mag., t. 8115 ; Crinodendron dependens, C. K. Schneider.} 



An evergreen shrub or small tree, up to 30 ft. high, the young shoots 

 reddish and faintly downy. Leaves oval or ovate, i to 3 ins. long, to \\ ins. 

 wide; shallowly and rather coarsely toothed, dark green and smooth above, 

 much paler beneath; stalk reddish, \ to j in. long, slightly hairy. Flowers 

 white, bell-shaped, f in. long, produced singly on a pendulous stalk i to 

 2 ins. long, from the leaf-axils. Corolla of five rather fleshy petals, which 

 are three-toothed at the ends, dgwny at the margins, oblong. 



Native of Chile; introduced by Mr H. J. Elwes in 1901. Its name was 

 for a long time wrongly attached to its fellow species in gardens. It appears 

 to thrive better than T. lanceolata as a wall shrub at Kew, but is considered 

 to be more tender in the open in Ireland. It is. certainly a much more 

 rapid grower. On a wall at Kew it has stood quite uninjured for several 

 winters, and blossoms freely in late summer. It is very distinct from 

 T. lanceolata in its white, more bell-shaped flowers. Easily increased by 

 cuttings. 



T. LANCEOLATA, Miquel. 



(T. dependens, Hort., Bot. Mag., t. 7160; T. hexapetala, Turczaninow ; Crinodendron 



Hookerianum, Gay.) 



An evergreen shrub or small tree, up to 10 or 15 ft. high, sometimes more, 

 of a stiff, bushy growth; young wood felted with grey down. Leaves oblong"- 

 lanceolate, pointed; i^ to 5 ins. long, ^ to i ins. wide; coarsely toothed 

 except towards the tapering base, dark green above and downy on the 

 midrib, paler beneath and downy on the midrib and chief veins, stiff and 

 hard in texture; stalk in. or less long, downy. Flowers produced singly 

 from the terminal leaf-axils each on a stout, stiff, downward-pointing, 

 stalk 2 to 3 ins. long. Corolla urn-shaped, i to ij ins. long, rich crimson, 

 very fleshy, grooved, toothed at the narrow mouth ; calyx downy. 



Native of Valdivia, Llanquihue, and the Island of Chiloe in Chile; 

 introduced by William Lobb for Messrs Veitch in 1848, and for the same 

 firm by Pearce about ten years later. It is only hardy in such places as 

 the Isle of Wight, Cornwall, Ireland, and the west of Scotland, but where it 



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