TREES AND SHRUBS DECIDUOUS 



SPIE^A HENEYI, Hemsl. 



Jour. R.H.S. 1903, vol. xxviii. p. 61, fig. 20. 



A Chinese species, first detected by Dr. A. Henry, a compact shrub 

 with neat foliage and white flowers in corymbs in the axils of the leaves 

 along the whole length of the previous season's growth. 



Eaised from seed collected in Central China, the shrub has proved 

 perfectly hardy and flowered with unusual freedom at Coombe Wood 

 during the summer of 1904. 



SPIB^A VEITCHII, Hemsl. 



A new species discovered in Central China by E. H. Wilson and through 

 him introduced to cultivation. 



The plant forms a neat compact shrub, with thin growths 6 to 8 ft. long, 

 of a reddish-brown clothed with small glaucous-green, oblong-lanceolate 

 leaves serrate along their apical portion. 



The flowers on the short side growths along the whole length of the 

 previous year's shoots are in terminal corymbs pure white, very showy 

 in a mass. 



SPIE.ZEA WILSONI, Duthie. 



A new species, in some respects intermediate between Spiraea Henryi 

 and S. Veitchii. 



The flowers white, are in large flat corymbs composed of several 

 smaller corymbs, and the peduncle and pedicels are covered with silky 

 hair. 



A native of the scrub-clad mountains of Western Hupeh, 7,000-8,500 ft. 

 elevation, it was first flowered during the summer of 1905 at Coombe 

 Wood. 



STEPHENANDEA FLEXUOSA, Sieb. & Zucc. 



Veitchs' Catlg. of Trees and Shrubs, 1882-1883, p. 30. 



A graceful Eosaceous shrub of Spiraea-like habit, introduced through 

 Charles Maries from Japan. 



The slender stems arch gracefully, are covered with crimson bark and 

 furnished with trilobed deeply-cut leaves about 2 in. long, the flowers 

 white, in small erect clusters. 



STEANSV^JSIA UNDULATA, Decnc. 



A handsome Photinia-like shrub with entire lance-shaped, coriaceous, 

 shining leaves, entire along the margin with an undulate surface, collected 

 in bunches at the end of the growths. 



The small white flowers are in flat corymbs, followed by brilliantly 



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