DRIMYS EHRETIA 503 



aromatic when crushed. Flowers borne in a cluster of loose umbels, from four 

 to seven in each umbel ; they are ivory white, fragrant, and about i^ ins. 

 across ; petals linear, pointed, spreading. 



Native of S. America from Tierra del Fuego to north of the equator ; 

 introduced as a living plant in 1827, but known since 1578, in which year its 

 bitter aromatic bark was brought home by Capt. Winter (after whom it is 

 named) in one of Drake's ships from the Magellan Straits. In the south-west 

 of England it is a free-growing shrub 12 to 25 ft. high ; but, wild in S. America, 

 it is described as over 40 ft. high. At Gravetye Manor, near East Grinstead, 

 a group of plants 4 ft. high came through the trying winter of 1908-9 with 

 little injury. At Kilmacurragh, Co. Wicklow, a specimen is 30 ft. high. 



ECCREMOCARPUS SCABER, Ruts and Pavon. BIGNONIACE^E. 



(Bot. Reg., t. 939.) 



A semi-woody climber with herbaceous shoots and the habit of a 

 Clematis ; stems ribbed, not downy. Leaves opposite, doubly pinnate ; 

 leaflets three, five, or seven on each subdivision, ovate, oblique, irregularly 

 and unequally lobed; \ to i^ ins. long, often heart-shaped at the base, 

 smooth ; the main-stalks end in a much-branched tendril which supports 

 the plant by twisting round any available object. Flowers nodding, 

 produced from June onwards in racemes 4 to 6 ins. long, of usually 

 seven to twelve blossoms. Corolla nearly i in. long, bright orange-red, 

 tubular, bellied on one side, contracted at the mouth to a narrow orifice, 

 where are five small, rounded lobes. Calyx minutely glandular. Seeds 

 flat, winged, numerous, in inflated pods ij ins. long, f in. wide. 



Native of Chile ; introduced in 1824. This handsome climber rarely 

 survives the winter in the open, except against a wall, but ripening seed 

 in abundance it may, if necessary, be treated as an annual. The seeds 

 should be sown in February in heat, and the seedlings planted out, after 

 being once potted, in May. Usually classed with woody plants, it 

 scarcely has a right to be considered as such out-of-doors, although in 

 greenhouses it lives an indefinite time, and forms a stout woody base. 



EHRETIA ACUMINATA, R. Brown. BORAGINACE^E. 



A small deciduous tree, 15 to 20 ft. high in this country, of open, 

 spreading habit; young shoots soon smooth, marked with pale spots. 

 Leaves alternate, oval, ovate, or slightly obovate ; 3 to 7 ins. long, ij to 

 3 ins. wide ; smaller on the flowering shoots ; tapered or rounded at the 

 base, short-pointed, toothed: furnished above when young with small 

 appressed hairs which soon fall away, tufted in the vein-axils beneath; 

 stalk J to | in. long. Flowers fragrant, white, produced in August in 

 terminal pyramidal panicles 3 or 4 ins. long ; the corolla is J in. across, 

 deeply five-lobed ; calyx with five rounded lobes. Fruit a drupe, at first 

 orange, finally black ; rarely seen in this country. 



Native of China and Japan ; rare in cultivation. A nearly allied, or 

 the same, plant was introduced in 1795 from the Himalaya, and grown in 



