GARRYA 



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than G. elliptica, both species being grown on the same wall. Some years ago 

 I saw it in Messrs Dickson's nursery at Chester, but it is very rare in cultivation. 

 It has not the fine qualities of G. elliptica, from which it may be distinguished 

 by its differently shaped leaves and the ultimate smoothness of its foliage and 



fruit. 



GARRYA ELLIPTICA (male plant). 



G. MACROPHYLLA, Bentham. 



A very robust evergreen shrub, forming naturally a small tree ; young wood 

 covered with a pale grey down. Leaves oblong, 5 to 8 ins. long, 2 to 4 ins. 

 wide ; rounded or tapering at both ends ; apex ending in a short tip ; dark 

 glossy green and, smooth above, felted beneath with grey down ; stalk \ to I 

 in. long. Male catkins I to 3 ins. long, axillary, often branched ; female 

 flowers produced in the axils of leaflike bracts on lateral shoots 3 to 5 ins. long. 



