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CORNUS 



a very striking and beautiful effect. Of the species that owe their beauty to 

 their large showy bracts as distinct from the true flowers, this is the most 

 promising for our climate. It is only likely to be confused in gardens with 

 C. florida, its East American ally, but its long slender-pointed bracts readily 

 distinguish it. Botanically it is more nearly allied to C. capitata, as is shown 

 by the agglomerated fruits. 



C. MACROPHYLLA, Wallich. 

 (Bot. Mag., t. 8261 ; C. brachypoda, C. A. Meyer.') 



A deciduous tree, 30 to 50 ft. high ; young shoots smooth or nearly so. 

 Leaves opposite, ovate to roundish or oblong, the base rounded or tapering, 

 the apex with a slender, often tail-like point ; 4 to 7 ins. long, 2 to 3^ ins. 

 wide ; bright green, and soon becoming smooth above ; glaucous beneath, and 



CORNUS KOUSA. 



at first clothed with pale, flattened, minute hairs attached at their middle ; 

 veins in six to eight pairs ; stalks ^ to ij ins. long. Flowers yellowish white, 

 numerous, produced in terminal, somewhat rounded cymes 4 to 6 ins. across ; 

 each flower in. diameter ; petals oblong ; calyx minutely toothed, grey with 

 minute down. Fruit globose, J in. diameter, blue when ripe. Blossoms during 

 July and August. 



Native of the Himalaya, whence it was introduced in 1827, China, and 

 Japan. It is a handsome and striking small tree, chiefly noteworthy for its 

 fine foliage ; the flowers, although profusely borne, are of too dull a white to 

 be very effective. There is a tree approaching 40 ft. in height in Coombe 

 Wood nursery. Much confusion has existed between this species and 

 C. controversa, which, although an alternate-leaved species, has long been 

 known on the Continent as " C. macrophylla." (See note on C. controversa.) 



C. MAS, Linnceus. CORNELIAN CHERRY. 



(C. mascula, Linnceus ; Bot. Mag., t. 2675.) 



A deciduous shrub or small tree, sometimes 25 ft. high, of spreading, rather 

 open habit ; young branchlets covered with minute, flattened, greyish hairs. 





