HORTUS VEITCHI1 



It is distinguished by the Chinese by the white bark of the root, famous 

 as a drug, that of Eleutherococcus Henryi being red. 



EUPTELIA DAVIDIANA, Baill. 



Hooker's Ic. PI. t. 2787. 



An extremely interesting tree, widely distributed in Central and Western 

 China, where specimens have been obtained by many travellers, the first 

 Pere David, after whom it is named. The species is variable, and 

 different forms have at various times been given specific rank, but 

 Mr. Hemsley (I.e. supra) does not find sufficient distinctive characters to 

 form more than one species. 



Seed collected in the Province of Hupeh in 1900 germinated, and plants 

 raised at Coombe Wood have proved perfectly hardy. 



The plant forms a shrub or small tree with neat, nearly orbicular leaves 

 terminated by a thick mucro-like apex, and colours well in autumn ; the 

 wood resembles that of the Hazel. 



EVODIA EUT^CAEPA, Benth. 



An interesting member of the Eue family, known in the Himalaya and 

 Japan, introduced to cultivation from the Province of Hupeh, Central 

 China. 



The pinnate leaves consist of four to six pairs of lanceolate leaflets 1 in. 

 or more in length ; the petioles red and the under surface with a silky 

 pubescence. 



The flowers, in terminal much-branched corymbs, are greenish-white in 

 colour, with the powerful odour characteristic of the Eue family. 



FEAXINUS BEACTEATA, Hemsl. 



Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. vol. xxvi. p. 84. 



Specimens of this handsome Ash were first collected by Dr. A. Henry 

 in the neighbourhood of Ichang, Central China, from which locality it was 

 subsequently introduced. 



The leaves, very light and handsome, are composed of eight to eleven 

 pairs of sub-opposite leaflets, glossy deep green above, bright green 

 beneath, with entire margins, and the tree attains a height of some 40 ft. 



Mr. Hemsley (I.e. supra) remarks : "It differs from F. retusa, Champ., 

 in having entire leaflets, less capillary pedicels, and obtuse fruits ; and 

 from F. Griffithii, Clarke, in the very differently shaped fruit." 



FEAXINUS MAEIESII, Hook. 



Bot. Mag. t. 6678. 



An ally of the South European Manna Ash, which it resembles in a 

 profusion of small white flower in dense broad panicles during the early 

 spring months. 



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