394 COROKIA CORONILLA 



(including the broad, flat stalk), roundish ovate or obovate, | to J in. 

 wide, smooth and dark green above, covered beneath with a white felt. 



COROKIA COTONEASTER. 



Flowers star-shaped, bright yellow, | in. across, short-stalked, solitary, 

 or as many as four in the leaf-axils ; petals five, narrowly linear, pointed, 

 silky at the back ; calyx silky white, with five short, ovate lobes. Fruit 

 red, round or oblong, J to J in. long. 



Native of New Zealand; introduced about 1875. At Kew tm>s 

 curious shrub needs the protection of a wall, where it thrives very well, 

 and where its contorted branches, thin entangled twigs, and tiny spoon- 

 shaped leaves are a perennial source of interest to visitors. It blossoms 

 in May, and although not showy is decidedly pretty and interesting. 

 The fruits have ripened in Canon Ellacombe's garden at Bitton, and 

 in shape and colour are not unlike small Cornelian cherries. In the 

 southern and milder counties it may be grown in the open ; it thrives 

 very well unprotected with Miss Willmott at Warley Place in Essex. 

 "Cprokia" is adapted from the Maori name "Korokia." 



CORONILLA. LEGUMINOS^:. 



A genus of shrubs and herbaceous plants, two of the former being 

 hardy in Britain and others half hardy. The distinctive features of the 

 genus are the pinnate leaves, the umbellate arrangement of the pea- 

 shaped flowers, the long-clawed petals, and the curious seed-pods. The 

 last are slender, round, and separated into several one-seeded compart- 

 ments defined by a constriction of the pod. The two hardy species are 

 of easy cultivation, liking a moderately rich, well-drained, loamy soil and 

 a sunny position. They are propagated by cuttings, which may be struck 

 either in a soft condition (when bottom heat should be given) or later, 

 when the growths are more woody, under a bell-glass in a cold frame. 

 Besides the species described below, C. GLAUCA, Linnaus, is occasionally 

 grown outside, in the south and west. In Essex also, especially at 



