HORTUS VEITCHII 



CORYLOPSIS SINENSIS, Hemsl 



Hemsley in Gard. Chron. 1906, vol. xxxix. p. 18, fig. 12. 



Introduced through Wilson from Central China, this species flowered 

 for the first time at Coombe in the spring of 1905. 



As a species closely allied to Corylopsis spicata, of Japan, the chief 

 distinctions are as given by Mr. Hemsley (I.e. supra) : 



" Corylopsis sinensis differs from C. spicata, to which it is closely allied, 

 in the stipules of the flowering branches being broader than long ; in the 

 leaves being broadest above the middle ; in the orbicular petals being 

 suddenly narrowed into a distinct claw ; in the yellow anthers and white 

 seed." 



COEYLOPSIS SPICATA, Sieb. & Zucc. 



Bot. Mag. t. 5458 ; Fl. des Serres, torn. xx. t. 2135 ; Gard. Chron. 1865, p. 172, fig. ; 

 id. 1881, vol. xv. p. 510, fig. ; Nicholson in Woods and Forests, 1884, p. 333, fig. 



Introduced by Fortune and by the late John Gould Veitch in the year 

 1864. 



As the generic name implies, this shrub has the general appearance of 

 the common Nut-bush (Corylus), its habit deciduous and its leaves long- 

 stalked, heart-shaped, and feather-veined. The great value to the garden 

 is with the flowers, in themselves small, yellow in colour, but produced 

 profusely and in conspicuous racemes before any leaves appear. 



The flowers, the colour and odour of the cowslip, are singly borne in the 

 axils of greenish bracts, some eight to twelve in a raceme. 



COEYLUS TIBETICA, Bat. 



A species remarkable in having the young wood covered with rough 

 ferruginous hairs, and the involucre surrounding the nuts spiny. 



The leaves, large and handsome, are broadly ovate in outline, cordate at 

 the base, with biserrate margins ; it was introduced from Central China. 



CEAT^EGUS PINNATIFIDA, Surge, var. MAJOE, N. E. Brown. 



Syns. C. tartarica, Hort. Veitch. 

 N. E. Brown in Gard. Chron. 1886, vol. xxvi. p. 621, fig. 121, p. 620. 



Introduced by us from Tartary, and valuable for the berries, of large 

 size and of a fine bright red colour. 



DAVIDIA INVOLUCEATA, Baillon. 



Plantac Davidianas, pt. ii. p. 60, t. 10 ; Veitchs' List of Novelties, 1903, p. 4, fig. ; 

 Gard. Chron. 1903, vol. xxxiii. p. 236, fig. 98. 



This truly remarkable plant was first made known to science from 



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