ELJEAGNUS ELLIOTTIA 



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The largest plant at Kew is 30 ft. across. A handsome species both in 

 flower and fruit. 



Var. PARVIFOLIA (E. parvifolia, Wallich}. Shoots at first silvery ; leaves 

 covered with distinctly starry hair-tufts on the upper surface when young, 

 becoming smooth later ; silvery and scaly beneath. 



E. umbellata differs from E. multiflora in its globose, short-stalked fruits ; 

 in the tube of the perianth being more slender ; and in the leaves being 

 paler, longer, and proportionately narrower. It also flowers later. 



ELLIOTTIA 



KACEMOSA, JMuhlenberg. 

 ERIC AC EJ:. 



(Bot. Mag., t. 8413.) 



A deciduous shrub, 4 

 to 10 ft. high, or occasion- 

 ally a small tree twice 

 as large ; young shoots 

 downy. Leaves narrowly 

 oval or obovate, tapering 

 towards both ends, 2 to 

 5 ins. long; f to if ins. 

 wide, dark dull green and 

 smooth above, paler and 

 sparsely hairy beneath ; 

 stalk \ to \ in. long, hairy. 

 Flowers thinly arranged 

 in a terminal raceme or 

 panicle 4 to 10 ins. high, 

 pure white, slightly fra- 

 grant ; petals four, oblong, 

 rounded at the end, f in. 

 long, reflexed, downy at 

 the margins; calyx -J in. 

 diameter, with four rounded 

 lobes; stamens eight, 

 shorter than the petals', and 

 with broad,' flattened stalks; 

 style as long as the petals. 

 Flower-stalk white, slender, 

 usually one- sometimes 



ELLIOTTIA RACKMOSA. 



Fruit 



three-flowered, \ to f in. long, with a pair of tiny bracts midway, 

 and seed unknown. 



Native of Georgia in the southern United States, and only found in a 

 few isolated spots in the Valley of the Savannah River. It was originally 

 discovered early in the nineteenth century by the botanist, Stephen 

 Elliot (1771-1830), after whom the genus is named, but was not intro- 

 duced to England until 1894, when Mr Berckmans of Augusta, Georgia, 

 sent a plant to Kew. It first flowered in July, 1911. It is not 



