500 DISCARIA 



Uruguay. It has small obovate leaves, J in. or less long, slender spines 



2 ins. or more long, and crowded 

 clusters of small yellowish white 

 flowers. It requires the protection 

 of a wall. 



The Discarias like a sheltered, 

 sunny position, ordinary garden soil, 

 and they can be multiplied by means 

 of cuttings taken in July and placed in 

 a close frame. 



D. SERRATIFOLIA, BentJiam. 



(Gardeners' Chronicle, 1876, ii., f. 65 ; 

 Colletia serratifolia, Ventenat.) 



A deciduous shrub, 10 to 14 ft. high, 

 with long, slender, pendulous, spiny 

 branches. Leaves opposite, ^ to I 

 in. long, ovate-oblong, with shallow, 

 rounded teeth ; both surfaces smooth 

 and lustrous green, especially the upper 

 one, which has an almost varnished 

 appearance. The spines, stiff, sharp, 

 and | in. or more long, are produced in 

 pairs at each joint. Flowers crowded 

 in clusters on short twigs from the year- 

 old shoots, each flower about in. across, 

 with no petals, but a greenish white calyx 

 tubular at the base, divided at the top 

 into five triangular lobes. 



Native of Chile and Patagonia; culti- 

 vated at Kew since 1842, and quite hardy. 

 Although it has no colour-beauty to re- 

 commend it, its flowers are borne so 

 abundantly in June as to render it quite 

 pretty, and they are, besides, charmingly 

 fragrant. It is well worth cultivating 

 for these, as well as for its distinct and 

 graceful appearance and glossy dark 

 foliage. 



D. TOUMATOU, Raoul. WILD 

 IRISHMAN. 



A deciduous shrub, varying in New 

 Zealand from a low, scrubby bush 2 ft. 

 high, to a small tree 25 ft. high, with 

 long, slender, flexuous and exceedingly 

 spiny branches. Spines I to IT? ins. or 

 even more'long, opposite, sharply pointed, 

 stiff, standing out from the branchlets at 

 almost right angles. Leaves opposite 

 DISCARIA TOUMATOU. on the shoots of the year, or in clusters 



beneath the spines on the year-old shoots, 

 from \ to I in. long, varying in shape from narrow oblong to obovate. Flowers 



