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width ; often cut off straight or heart-shaped at the base, narrowing abruptly 

 at the apex to a long drawn-out point ; the margin is irregularly toothed, 

 almost ragged ; the leaf-stalk is often two-thirds as long as the blade. Male 

 flowers are composed of stamens with red anthers ; the females (on separate 

 trees) of few clustered carpels. Fruit an oblanceolate, obliquely notched 

 samara, containing one seed. 



Native of the forests of Central Japan. This tree has some value in the 

 garden, and although it has no beauty of flower its habit is good ; its leaves 

 are handsome and distinct in form, and they turn red and yellow before 

 falling. A small male tree has flowered at Kew for some years past in 

 April. In the arboretum at Segrez, in France, formed by the late Mr A. 

 Lavallee, I saw a few years ago a tree about .20 ft. high. 



EUROTIA CERATOIDES, C. A. Meyer. CHENOPODIACE.E. 

 (Diotis ceratoides, Will<tenou<.~) 



A deciduous shrub of spreading habit, 3 to 4 ft. high, and twice or 

 thrice as wide ; branches long, slender, whitish, stellately downy. Leaves 

 alternate, grey-white at first, becoming green, lance-shaped, pointed; 

 | to 2 ins. long, J to J in. wide ; stellately downy especially beneath, 

 and with three longitudinal veins. Flowers produced in July, densely 

 packed in spikes \ to i \ ins. long, and furnished with linear woolly bracts 

 standing out beyond the flower ; these spikes are terminal on short side 

 twigs from the uppermost i or 2 feet of the year's shoot, the whole 

 forming a slender panicle of that length. The upper part of each spike 

 is composed of male flowers, grey and very woolly, with the yellow 

 anthers protruding through the wool; below them, and situated in the 

 leaf-axils, are one or two female flowers without sepals or petals, and so 

 small as to be scarcely visible. The seed-vessel becomes covered with 

 silky white hairs, \ in. long. 



Native of the Caucasus and Asia Minor, eastward to China; intro- 

 duced in 1780. Over this wide area it shows some variation in shape and 

 size of the leaf, and in the amount of down upon it. In drying for the 

 herbarium the leaves and fruits turn brown. The shrub has considerable 

 botanical interest, but its only garden value is in providing a mass of grey- 

 white foliage in summer. It is perfectly hardy, does not need a rich soil, 

 and is easily increased by cuttings. 



E. LAN ATA, Moquin, a species from Western N. America, is also in 

 cultivation. It is a grey-white shrub a yard high, clothed with starry 

 down. Leaves linear, J to ij ins. long, like those of lavender. Flowers 

 in slender panicles 4 to 9 ins. long, i to 2 ins. wide. It inhabits dry 

 regions, and is known as "white sage." Not apparently so good for 

 gardens as E. ceratoides, from which it is distinguished by the more 

 recurved margins of the leaves. 



EURYA JAPONICA, Thunberg. TERNSTRCEMIACE^:. 



(E. pusilla, Siebold^ 



A dwarf evergreen shrub, with alternate, dark, glossy green leaves, 

 which are \\ to 3 ins. long, oval or obovate, toothed, blunt at the apex, 



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