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and light green below ; quite entire, flat, leathery, and marked 

 on the under side with numerous longitudinal nerves, very 

 slightly elevated, except towards the base of the leaf, where 

 they are more developed, and unite in the short, but broad 

 footstalk of the leaf. Branches alternate or opposite, spread- 

 ing, rather slender, and more or less declining ; lateral ones not 

 numerous, but spreading ; male catkins in fascicles on a com- 

 mon footstalk. Fruit unknown. 



A fine evergreen bush or small tree, found in the neighbour- 

 hood of Yeddo, by Mr. Fortune, who first sent plants of it to 

 Mr. Standish, of the Royal Nursery at Bagshot in 1861. 



Nageia ovata variegata, Gordon, the Variegated Ovate- 

 leaved Nagi. 



A handsome variety, with the leaves variously marked, some 

 being striped with broad, others with narrow bands, of a 

 creamy-white colour, running the whole length of the leaves 

 like a ribbon ; while other leaves are half white and half 

 green, some again are broadly striped with green down the 

 middle, and margined with creamy- white ; but all of them differ 

 more or less in the manner and form of variegation, all over 

 the plant. 



It was sent to the Royal Nursery at Bagshot, by Mr. Fortune, 

 from Japan, in 1861. 



