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two winters. It roots readily from cuttings made in late summer, and put 

 in heat. The inflorescence reaches the bud state in autumn, and remains 

 exposed through the winter, the flowers expanding in April and May. 



V. CASSINOIDES, Linnceus. WlTHE-ROD. 



A deciduous shapely bush of rounded form, rarely more than 6 to 8 ft. 

 high in Britain, but said to be occasionally a small tree in the southern United 

 States; young wood scurfy. Leaves ovate to oval with a short, slender, 

 often bluntish apex, rounded or wedge-shaped at the base; \\ to 4^ ins. 

 long, | to 2^ ins. wide; irregularly and shallowly round-toothed, or merely 

 wavy at the margin, thick and firm in texture; dull dark green and smooth 

 or nearly so above, somewhat scurfy beneath; stalk scurfy, j to f in. long. 

 Flowers all uniform and perfect, yellowish white, \ in. wide, produced in 

 early June in cymes 2 to 4 ins. across, the main-stalk of which is shorter 

 than the branching portion. Fruit blue-black when ripe. 



Native of Eastern N. America; introduced, according to Aiton, in 1761. 

 There is much confusion between this species and V. nudum (q.v.\ but 

 cassinoides has dull green leaves and very scurfy young shoots, leaf-stalks, and 

 flower-stalks, and a short-stalked inflorescence. In nudum the leaves are 

 glossy, the shoots, etc., comparatively free from scurf, and the inflorescence 

 usually long-stalked. 



V. CORIACEUM, Blume. 



(V. cylindricum, Hamilton; Sargent's Trees and Shrubs, t. 143.) 



An evergreen shrub (in some of its native habitats a tree 40 to 50 ft. 

 high), branchlets warted, otherwise smooth. Leaves oval, oblong, or 

 somewhat obovate, 3 to 8 ins. long, i| to 4 ins. wide; wedge-shaped or 

 sometimes rounded at the base, slender-pointed at the apex, the terminal 

 half usually remotely toothed; upper surface dark dull green and covered 

 with a thin, waxy layer, which cracks and turns grey when the leaf is 

 rubbed or bent; both surfaces quite smooth; stalk ^ to i^ ins. long. Flowers 

 white, quite tubular, about J in. long, produced from July to September in 

 usually seven-rayed cymes 3 to 5 ins. across. The cymes are rendered pretty 

 by the protruded bunch of lilac-coloured stamens. Fruit egg-shaped, ^ in. 

 long, black. 



Native of the Himalaya and China; introduced to Kew from India in 

 1881, and later from Yunnan through the Jardin des Plantes, Paris, in 1892. 

 Most of the plants now in cultivation are Chinese, and these are probably 

 hardier than the Indian ones. They have at any rate succeeded very well 

 in the Coombe Wood Nursery. Two characters make this species very 

 distinct, viz., the tubular corolla with erect, not spreading lobes, and 

 the curious waxy covering of the leaves; the latter only shows itself when 

 the leaf is touched or bent; ordinarily they are of a dingy dark green. 



V. COTINIFOLIUM, D. Don. 



A deciduous shrub 6 to 12 ft. high, whose young branchlets, under-surface 

 of leaves (upper surface to a less extent) and the flower-stalks are clothed 

 with a dense, grey, stellate down. Leaves ovate, oval or nearly round; the 

 base rounded, the apex shortly pointed or rounded; 2 to 5 ins. long, two- 

 thirds to nearly as wide, finely toothed. Flowers white, tinged with pink, 

 widely funnel-shaped, \ in. long, produced during May in rounded usually 



