TREES AND SHRUBS EVERGREEN AND 

 CLIMBING PLANTS 



ABELIA SPATHULATA, Sieb. & Zucc. 



Bot. Mag. t. 6601. 



A beautiful free-flowering hardy shrub introduced from Japan through 

 Charles Maries. 



The flowers in pairs, white with a yellow throat, are subtended by a rosy 

 calyx of four or five spreading lobes. 



AEUNDINAEIA NITIDA, Mitford. 



Syns. A. Khasiana, Hort. (non Munro). 

 Gard. Chron. 1898, vol. xxir. p. 211, fig. ; Mitford in The Bamboo Garden, p. 73, fig. 



Eaised at Coombe from seed received in 1889 from Dr. Eegel, at that 

 time Director of the Botanic Gardens, St. Petersburg. 



It is described in The Bamboo Garden (I.e. supra) as "By far the 

 daintiest and most attractive of all its genus," and the tale is : 



"The story of this lovely species is somewhat curious. When the 

 Bamboo Garden was being formed at Kew, Mr. Bean came across it in 

 Messrs. Veitchs' nursery at Coombe Wood, where it was then named 

 Bambusa nigra. ... At that time the only Arundinaria known to have 

 black stems was the Himalayan A. Khasiana, and with this species the 

 plant now under notice was conjecturally identified. As A. Khasiana, 

 accordingly, it was described by Mr. Bean in the Gardeners' Chronicle 

 and by myself in The Garden. Attention, however, was called to the 

 subject by Mr. Gamble's monograph of the Bambuseae of British India, 

 from which it is clear that this Arundinaria agrees only in its purple-black 

 stems with A. Khasiana, and, moreover, that there is not among the 

 Bambuseae of the Himalayas any known plant corresponding with it." 



Further inquiry showed that the seed received from Dr. Eegel had 

 been collected in North Szechuan by the Eussian, Potanin, and a new 

 name required, nitida was chosen as appropriate to its brilliancy and 

 beauty ; an unusually graceful species. 



AEUNDINAEIA VEITCHII, N. E. Brown. 



Syns. Bamlusa Veitchii, Carriere; B. allo-inarginata, Hort. 



N. E. Brown in Gard. Chron. 1889, vol. v. p. 521; Mitford in The Bamboo Garden, 



p. 77, fig. 



A dwarf-growing species from Japan, some 2 ft. high, with leaves 



389 c c 



