TRIFrERYGIUM TROCHODENDRON 



603 



with five rounded lobes ; stamens five. Fruit three-angled, each angle 

 conspicuously winged; the wings erect, about -| in. long, ^ in. wide, 

 membranous. The whole inflorescence is covered with short brown felt. 

 Native of Japan, Corea, and Formosa; discovered in 1858 by Wilford, 

 the Kew collector ; introduced by Mr J. G. Jack to the Arnold Arboretum 

 in 1905, thence to Kew, where it is apparently fairly hardy but slow- 

 growing. In foliage it resembles Celastrus, but is very distinct in the 

 fruit, which is more like that of wych elm with an extra wing. The flowers 

 are said to be sweetly scented. 



TROCHODENDRON ARALIOIDES, Siebold. 



TROCHODENDRACE^:. 

 (Bot. Mag., t. 7375.) 



An evergreen glabrous shrub of rather spreading habit in this country, 

 becoming a small tree 15 to 30 ft. high in the mountain forests of 

 Yezo and the main island of 

 Japan, where it is indigenous. 

 Leaves rhododendron-like, 3 

 to 5 ins. long, narrowly oval 

 or lanceolate, leathery, shal- 

 lowly toothed at the upper 

 end, lustrous green; leaf-stalks 

 half the length of the blade. 

 Flowers produced from April 

 to June in erect, terminal 

 racemes, each flower on a 

 slender stalk i to ij ins. 

 long. There are no sepals 

 or petals, and the numerous 

 stamens are set round the 

 edge of a green hemispherical 

 disc, which is really the calyx- 

 tube. Across the stamens the 

 flower is f in. in diameter. 

 Carpels about ten, arranged 

 in a ring within the stamens. 



The only known repre- 

 sentative of its genus, this 

 shrub gives the name to a 

 small and peculiar natural 

 order once united with Mag- 

 noliaceae. T. aralioides is 

 a handsome-foliaged shrub, 



interesting as well as striking when in blossom, its flowers being a vivid 

 green. First introduced from Japan by Messrs Veitch, in whose nursery 

 at Coombe Wood it bore its green flowers for the first time in 1894. 

 The original specimen is now at Kew a handsome bush 10 ft. high. 



TKOCHODENDRON ARALIOIDES. 



