TREES AND SHRUBS EVERGREEN 



A dense-growing species with small spiny leaves and red berries, 

 probably allied to Ilex cornuta. 



Eaised from seeds collected in China by Wilson, it has proved perfectly 

 hardy at Coombe Wood, and of very dwarf compact habit. 



JASMINUM PRIMULINUM, Hemsl, 



Hooker's Ic. PI. t. 2384 ; Gard. Cliron. 1903, vol. xxxiii. p. 197, fig. 83 ; Bot. Mag. 

 t. 7981 ; Flora and Sylva, 1904, vol. ii. p. 168, col. pi. 



A beautiful shrub first discovered by W. Hancock Esq., at Mengtse in 

 Yunr.an, and later by Dr. A. Henry and Wilson in the same locality. 

 By the last-named living plants were sent to Coombe Wood, where they 

 flowered in October 1901 for the first time. 



In general appearance the plant resembles the well-known Jasminum 

 nudiflorum, but the flowers and leaves are much larger and the plants 

 when grown in the open almost evergreen. 



In Dr. Henry's view, in an article in Flora and Sylva (I.e. supra), it is 

 only a form of J. nudiflorum that has escaped from cultivation. In 

 support of this theory he mentions the facts that it never sets seed, 

 the flowers are often semi-double, and the shrubs were always seen 

 growing in gardens or in hedges in the vicinity of villages, and never in 

 woods and forests, but a greater knowledge may lead to a different 

 opinion. 



Plants of a high order, grown by Leopold de Rothschild Esq., Gunners- 

 bury, were exhibited in London in January 1906, cultivated as a cold 

 greenhouse subject. 



LARDIZABALA BITERNATA, Ruiz & Pav. 



Bot. Mag. t. 4501. 



This singular evergreen climber introduced through G. T. Davy Esq., 

 who found it in the Province of Concepcion and gave instructions for 

 plants to be sent to him at Valparaiso, ultimately brought to Exeter by 

 William Lobb ; it is now in general cultivation. 



It flowered for the first time in March 1849. 



LEUCOTHOE DAVISLE, Torrey. 



Syns. L. Lobbu, Hort. 

 Bot. Mag. t. 6247. 



A handsome evergreen shrub with neat elegant racemes of white flower 

 resembling those of the lily-of-the-valley. 



Discovered by William Lobb in 1853 on the Sierra Nevada Mountains 

 of California, at an elevation of 5,000 ft., introduced and distributed by 

 the Veitchian firm under the name of Leucothoe Lobbii, and subse- 

 quently again gathered in the same locality by Miss N. J. Davis, 



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