ZELKOVA ZENOBIA 



695 



green and with stiff, short hairs; lower surface with more numerous, softer 

 hairs ; stalk to ^ in. long. Fruit (according to Henry) like that of 

 Z. crenata, but somewhat smaller. 



There is no wild specimen of 

 this tree in the Kew Herbarium, and 

 its origin is not definitely known. 

 Dippel, who first distinguished it 

 as a Zelkova, and figured it in his 

 Handbuch der Laubholzkunde^ ii., 

 fig. 14, in 1892, suggests an Eastern 

 Asiatic origin for it. It appears, 

 however, to have considerable 

 affinity with Z. crenata, and is more 

 likely to be of Caucasian origin. 

 Henry suggests it may be a hybrid 

 between Z. cretica, a native of Crete 

 and Cyprus, not in cultivation, and 

 Z. crenata ; but does not explain 

 how such a cross can have been 

 effected. It is a pretty and distinct 

 shrub or tree, well marked by the 

 deep angular cutting of the leaf- 

 margins. It has been cultivated 

 at Kew since 1886, and is perfectly 

 hardy, slow growing, and forming a 

 bushy head. It was long thought 

 to be an elm, but it fruited at Paris 

 in 1908, and was conclusively shown 

 to be a Zelkova. 



ZENOBIA SPECIOSA, 



D. Don. ERICACEAE. 



(Andromeda cassinefolia, Sims ; 

 Bot. Mag., t. 970.) 



A deciduous or sub-evergreen 

 shrub of somewhat irregular, thin 

 habit, 4 to 6 ft. high, devoid of 

 down or hairs. Leaves oblong- 

 ovate, tapering at the base, pointed 

 or rounded at the apex, shallowly 

 toothed ; i to 2 \ ins. long, J to \\ 

 ins. wide ; of a dark shining green. 

 Flowers pendent ; produced, often 

 in fours or fives, in axillary clusters 

 on the terminal portion of the 

 shoots of the previous year, each 

 on a stalk -J to f in. long, forming 

 leafy or naked racemes 4 to 8 ins. long. Corolla pure white, bell-shaped, 

 f in. wide, with five shallow lobes ; calyx-lobes five, triangular, persisting 

 at the base of the dry, flattish-globose (or orange-shaped) seed-vessel. 



Native of the eastern United States from N. Carolina to Florida ; intro- 



ZKNOBIA PULVKBULKNTA. 



