HORTUS VEITCHII 



COTONEASTEE HUMIFUSA, Duthie. 



A dense-growing creeping species, introduced from Central China 

 through Wilson, the leaves dark green above, pale and slightly tomentose 

 on the under surface, 1 in. long by f in. broad. 



The long shoots run over the ground as a carpet of bright green foliage, 

 in autumn studded with vivid scarlet fruit. 



The habit of this plant is admirably adapted for covering banks or 

 rockeries. 



DESFONTAINEA SPINOSA, Ruiz & Pav. 



Gard. Chron. 1849, p. 564 (Notice of New Plants) ; id. 1854, p. 287 ; Bot. Mag. t. 4781 ; 

 Fl. des Serres, torn. ix. p. 207. 



An evergreen shrub with glossy holly-like leaves and tubular flowers 

 often 2 in. long, bright scarlet, tipped with yellow. 



Unfortunately not hardy in all localities, it is worth growing as a pot 

 plant, if protected during winter and plunged in borders to flower in 

 the summer months. 



The plant was long a puzzle to systematic botanists, who differed in 

 their opinion as to its affinities and the exact position in the Natural 

 System, but it was finally placed in Loganiacese, a family of which the 

 Buddleia is a familiar example. 



Desfontainea spinosa was introduced to gardens through William 

 Lobb, who sent plants to Exeter, where it flowered for the first time in 

 August 1853. 



ELJE AGNUS MACEOPHYLLA, Thunb. 

 Bot. Mag. t. 7638. 



A handsome species, the largest-leaved in the genus, with the young 

 wood, leaves, flowers, and fruits, the latter bright red in colour, and very 

 ornamental, covered with the characteristic lepidote scales. 



It was introduced from Japan to Coombe Wood by Charles Maries, in 

 1879, and is perfectly hardy. 



EMBOTHEIUM COCCINEUM, Forst. 



Gard. Chron. 1849, p. 564 (Notice of New Plants) ; Bot. Mag. t. 4856; Fl. des Serres, 

 1858, torn. iii. 2nd ser. p. 37 ; The Florist, 1858, vol. xi. n.s. pi. 135 ; The Garden, 

 1876, vol. x. p. 566; pi. li. 



A handsome evergreen shrub with racemes of the richest scarlet 

 in profusion at the end of April and the beginning of May, justifying 

 the popular appellation of " Flame Bush." 



Like other South American shrubs not perfectly hardy in all parts of 

 this country, it succeeds admirably in South Devon, Cornwall, and 

 Ireland. 



Interesting as a member of the order Proteaceae, an order representative 



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