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TAXUS 



TECOMA 



green. Var. glatica, Carr. Vigorous form, with longer 

 and narrower Ivs. dark green above and with a glaucous 

 bluish tint beneath. Var. Jacksonii, Gord. (var. 

 pendula, Hort.). Branches spreading, pendulous at the 

 tips, with more or less incurved Ivs. Var. Iftteo- 

 baccata, Pilger (var.fructu luteo, Loud.). With yellow fr. 

 Gn. 35, p. 37. R.H. 1886, p. 104. Var. procumbens, 

 Loud. Prostrate shrub, with elongated and much rami- 

 fied branches. Var. repandens, Hort. A low form with 

 long wide-spreading branches and dull bluish green Ivs. 

 Var. Washington!!, Beissn. Vigorous form, with longer 

 Ivs., partly colored golden yellow. 



cuspidata, Sieb. & Zucc. (T. baccata var. cuspidate, 

 Carr.). Tree, attaining 50 ft., with a trunk usually 2 ft. 

 diam.: bark bright red: branches ascending: Ivs. usually 

 falcate, thickish, distinctly and abruptly mucronate, 

 dark green above, pale fulvous green or pale green 

 beneath, YT-\ in. long: fr. with ovoid seed slightly 

 3-4-angled and ygm. long. Japan. S.I.F. 1:15. Very 

 similar to T. baccata, but branches stouter and Ivs. 



3782. Taxus brevifolia. ( X K) 



darker green above and tinged yellowish beneath, 

 somewhat broader, more abruptly mucronate and 

 thicker in texture. Var. nana, Rehd. (var. brevifdlia, 

 Hort. Amer. Var. compdcta, Bean). Shrubby form with 

 spreading branches densely clothed with short branch- 

 lets: Ivs. somewhat shorter and duller, ascending and 

 not or scarcely 2-ranked: slow-growing, rather compact 

 while young, but with age becoming more open. C.L.A. 

 11:308. F.E. 29:409. Gn.M. 2:11. yar. densa, 

 Rehd. Low form making a dense sometimes almost 

 hemispherical bush with ascending branchlets: Ivs. 

 like those of the preceding form. Var. chinensis, Rehd. 

 & Wilson (T. baccata var. chinensis, Pilger). Lvs. more 

 falcate, lighter green, %r^% m - l n g> convex above 

 with the midrib very slightly raised: seeds broadly 

 ovoid, slightly compressed, slightly 2-angled. Cent, 

 and W. China. This variety fruits very profusely. 

 The plant offered as var. capitata does not differ from 

 typical T. cuspidata. 



canadensis, Marsh. (T. baccata var. minor, Michx. 

 T. baccata var. canadensis, Gray. T. minor, Brit.). 

 Fig. 3781. Prostrate shrub, with wide-spreading slen- 

 der branches, rarely more than 3 ft. high: Ivs. shorter 

 and narrower, less crowded and of a lighter, more yel- 

 lowish green than those of T. baccata, assuming in 

 winter usually a reddish tint: fr. ripens about 2 months 

 earlier than that of T. baccata; seeds depressed, broader 



than long: fls. monoecious (at least usually). New- 

 foundland to Man., south to Va. and Iowa. B.B. 

 (ed. 2) 1:67. V. 14:252. Gn.M. 2:22. In cult, it 

 becomes usually a more upright and less straggling 

 shrub. 



brevifdlia, Nutt. Fig. 3782 (adapted from Pacific 

 R. R. Report). Tree, 40-50 or occasionally 80 ft. high, 

 with slender horizontal or somewhat pendulous 

 branches forming a broad, open, pyramidal head: lys. 

 distinctly 2-ranked, sharply pointed, dark yellowish 

 green, M-%in. long: seeds ovoid, 2-4-angled. Brit. 

 Col. to Calif. S.S. 10:514. Probably as hardy as T. 

 baccata. 



T. floridana, Chapm. Bushy tree, 25 ft. high or sometimes 

 shrubby: Ivs. slender, %-\ in. long, dark green. Fla. S.S. 10:515. 

 T. koraiensis, Hort.=Cephalotaxus Harringtonia var. fastigiata. 

 T. Wallichidina,Zucc. Tree, to 100 ft.: Ivs. gradually long-acumi- 

 nate, 1-1 Vi in. long. Himalayas, Malay Archipelago, Philippine Isls. 

 Apparently not in cult. ALFRED REHDER. 



TCHIHATCHEWIA (named for Count Paul Tchi- 

 hatchef). Crucjierse. Hardy perennial herb (possibly 

 of shorter duration), suitable for the rockery. Plant very 

 hispid: root thick: st. stout, leafy, pilose: fls. purple; 

 sepals erect, the lateral ones saccate at base; petals 

 clawed, blade minute; stamens without teeth: silique 

 pendulous, obovate, compressed, broadly membrana- 

 ceous-marginate, 1-celled, 2-seeded. One species, 

 Armenia. Sometimes spelled with another c, Tchi- 

 chatchewia. 



isatidea, Boiss. St. very stout, 6-10 in. high: 

 Ivs. 1^2-2^2 i n - l n g> spreading and recurved, the 

 upper ones gradually larger, sessile, linear, hispidly 

 hairy: fls. bright rosy red, vanilla-scented, disposed in a 

 dense, hemispherical, much-branched corymb, 4 in. 

 across. Armenia. B.M. 7608. G.C. III. 42:324. R.H. 

 1895, p. 352. 



TEA: Thea. T., Oswego: Monarda didyma. T., Paraguay: 



Ilex paraguariensis. 



TEAK: Tedona. 



TEASEL: Species of Dipsacus. 



TECOMA (abridged from the Mexican name Teco- 

 maxochitl). Including Stenolbbium. Bignoniacese. Or- 

 namental shrubs, grown for their showy flowers. 



Upright plants with herbaceous shoots: Ivs. opposite, 

 odd-pinnate, rarely simple; Ifts. serrate, membranous: 

 fls. in terminal panicles or racemes; calyx tubular- 

 campanulate; corolla funnelform or funnelform-cam- 

 panulate; stamens included, with diverging anther- 

 cells and enlarged foliaceous connective; disk cupulate, 

 crenate: caps, linear, with leathery valves; seeds nar- 

 row-elliptic, with 2 large thin wings. About 5 species 

 from Fla. and Texas to Argentina. The trumpet-vine, 

 commonly referred to Tecoma, will now be found 

 under Campsis. 



The tecomas are upright shrubs with pinnate decidu- 

 ous or subpersistent foliage and large and showy 

 usually yellow flowers in terminal clusters. They stand 

 but little frost and are well suited for cultivation in 

 Florida and southern California. Propagation is by 

 seeds which are usually freely produced and by green- 

 wood cuttings under glass. 



The yellow elder, T. stans, grows exceedingly well, 

 on high pine-land and is perfectly at home in Florida, 

 attaining an immense size if well fertilized and mulched, 

 dense masses 18 to 25 feet high and as much through 

 being not at all rare. This tecoma is the glory of the 

 south Florida gardens in autumn, as is the beautiful 

 Bauhinia purpurea in April. No shrub is better 

 adapted for the new settlers in the sandy pine-land 

 gardens. When covered with its large fragrant flowers 

 it is visited by numberless hummingbirds and insects. 

 Owing to its rapid growth and dense foliage from the 

 ground, the yellow elder is highly valued as screen for 



