TREES AND SHRUBS DECIDUOUS 



and subsequently as Magnolia Halleana, given by Mr. S. B. Parsons of 

 Flushing, U.S.A., in compliment to Mr. G. E. Hall, who in 1862 intro- 

 duced the plant to America. 



Found wild on Fuji-yama, it had long been cultivated, and those first 

 sent home were obtained from gardens in Nagasaki by Oldham in 1862. 



Plants introduced by Messrs. Veitch from Japan, flowered for the first 

 time in this country at Coombe in March 1878. 



The flowers star-shaped, pure white in colour, are produced early in the 

 year before the leaves appear. 



MELIOSMA MYEIANTHA, Sieb. & Zucc. 



Card. Chron. 1902, vol. xxxi. p. 30, fig. 



An uncommon shrub, the only species of the genus, with small greenish- 

 yellow flowers densely borne in branched panicles, resembling some species 

 of Spiraea. The plant, though not perfectly hardy in all parts of England, 

 flowers and seeds freely at Coombe "Wood. 



It was introduced from Japan, but has by no means a wide distribution. 



NEILLIA SINENSIS, Oliver. 



Hooker's Ic. PI. t. 1540; Jour. R.H.S. 1903, vol. xxviii. p. 61. 



A beautiful hardy shrub, from Central China, which attains a height of 

 from 4 to 5 ft., furnished with an elegant currant-like leafage, and 

 produces in great abundance drooping racemes of rose-pink flowers. 



Perfectly hardy, and flowered for the first time in this country in the 

 summer of 1904. 



NYSSA SINENSIS, Oliver. 



Hooker's Ic. PI. t. 1964. 



A deciduous shrub or small tree discovered in the Province of Hupeh 

 Central China, by Dr. A. Henry, and subsequently introduced to cultiva- 

 tion from the same locality. 



The discovery of this genus in China and in the Himalaya is interest- 

 ing as it was formerly supposed to be restricted to the Eastern United 

 States. 



PEETYA SINENSIS, Oliver. 



Hooker's Ic. PI. t. 2214. 



A genus of the Mutisia group of the Composite*, first made known 

 in China from specimens collected in the Province of Hupeh by 

 Dr. A. .Henry. 



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