HORTUS VEITCHI1 



HYDRANGEA HOETENSIA, DC., var. MAEIESII, Hort. 

 The Garden, 1898, vol. xliv. p. 390, pi. 1196. 



This most curious of the many varieties of the common Hydrangea was 

 introduced from Japan through Charles Maries. 



The inflorescence is remarkable in having sterile flowers confined 

 to the outer edge of the corymb, of large size, each measuring from 

 3 to 3f in. across, of a pink or delicate mauve-pink hue. 



HYDRANGEA HORTENSIA, DC., var. ROSEA. 



Rev. Hort. 1904, p. 544, col. pi. 



A beautiful form introduced from Japan, producing in a normal state 

 flowers of a beautiful deep rose remarkable in that they assume a peculiar 

 porcelain blue tint, for which a ferruginous soil is essential. 



HYDRANGEA LONGIPES, Hemsl. (non Franch.). 



Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. vol. xxiii. p. 274. 



A new species first sent by Dr. Henry from the Province of Hupeh, 

 Central China, and subsequently introduced to cultivation from the same 

 locality. 



A shrub 2 to 3 ft. in height with long-stalked ovate-rotund leaves 

 resembling those of Hydrangea scandens, and terminal cymes surrounded 

 by white sterile blooms on stalks at some distance from the fertile flowers. 



LINDERA TZUMU, Hemsl. 



Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. vol. xxvi. p. 392. 



A tree 20 to 50 ft. high with variable foliage introduced from the 

 Province of Hupeh, Central China. 



According to Bretschneider, this is the t'ze tree of the Chinese Classics, 

 valued by the ancient Chinese for its timber. 



Of rapid growth in this country, seedling trees at Coombe Wood having 

 attained a height of 8 ft. in four years ; the leaves broadly ovate, or 

 rhomboid, cuneate at the base, are sometimes trilobed; the under side 

 glaucous, the petioles and principal veins of a reddish tinge ; the young 

 wood brightly spotted with purple. 



LIRIODENDRON CHINENSE, Sarg. 



Sargent's Trees and Shrubs, 1903, vol. i. p. 103, t. 51 ; Gard. Chron. 1903, vol. xxxiv. 

 p. 370 ; Hooker's Ic. PI. 1905, pi. 2785 j Flora and Sylva, 1905, vol. iii. p. 202. 



This species was formerly regarded as a geographical form of the 

 variable North American Tulip Tree, Liriodendron tulipifera, but more 

 complete specimens have shown sufficient characters to render it a distinct 



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