618 HELICHRYSUM- HETEROMELES 



Scarcely so hardy as H. rosmarinifolium, and of little merit. Native of 

 New Zealand. f 



H. ANTENNARIUM, F. Mueller. An evergreen shrub of bushy, densely leafy 

 habit. Leaves narrowly obovate, f to ivr ins. long, smooth, deep green. 

 Flower-heads whitish, in. across, produced in June in terminal corymbs 

 i to 2 ins. wide. Native of Australia. Only hardy near the sea in the south 

 and south-western counties and similar places. It thrives in the gardens of 

 Osborne, Isle of Wight. 



HELWINGIA RUSCIFLORA, Willdenow. CORNACE^:. 

 (H. japonica, Dietrich?) 



A deciduous shrub, 3 or 4 ft. high, with smooth twigs. Leaves 

 simple, alternate, ovate, tapering at both ends, long-pointed, ij to 3 ins. 

 long, \ to i J ins. wide ; with fine, rather bristle-like teeth on the margins, 

 quite smooth on both surfaces ; stalk ^ to i in. long ; stipules hair-like. 

 Flowers unisexual, very small, pale green or greenish white ; females 

 produced singly or in threes on the midrib about the centre of the upper 

 surface of the leaf; males more numerous; they are stalkless, and of no 

 beauty. Fruit \ in. long, roundish oval. 



Native of Japan; introduced to Europe by Siebold in 1830. It has 

 not the least merit as an ornamental shrub, although the foliage in a 

 milder climate is larger and perhaps more striking than as here described ; 

 but it is a plant of singular botanical interest. The morphological 

 explanation of the anomalous position of the flowers in the middle of 

 the leaf (for no true leaf ever produces flowers) is that the flower-stalk in 

 reality originates in the axil of the leaf, but is united from end to end 

 with the stalk and midrib. This shrub is hardy at Kew, and is propa- 

 gated by cuttings of young wood. 



HETEROMELES ARBUTIFOLIA, Roemer. TOLLON. ROSACES 



(Photinia arbutifolia, Lindley ; Bot. Reg., t. 491.) 



An evergreen tree, occasionally 30 ft. high, or in cultivation more 

 often a shrub, with downy young bark. Leaves stiff and leathery, 

 2 to 4 ins. long, f to i J ins. wide ; oblong, lanceolate or obovate, tapering 

 at the base to a thick downy stalk J to f in. long ; the margins set with 

 stiff teeth, each tipped with a small black gland. Flowers produced very 

 numerously in a large, flattish panicle, composed of corymbose clusters 

 terminating the shoot, and in the axils of the uppermost leaves. Each 

 flower is from J to f in. diameter ; petals pure white ; calyx with short, 

 smooth, triangular lobes. Fruit about the size of holly berries, bright 

 red, tasting like common haws. 



Native of California ; introduced by Menzies in 1796. It is a hand- 

 some evergreen, unfortunately not hardy at Kew, but thrives well in the 

 Grayswood Hill garden at Haslemere, where I have seen it in flower in 

 August; also in Lord Annesley's garden at Castlewellan, Co. Down. 



