678 JUNIPERUS KALMIA 



Var. PENDULA. Various pendulous forms are known, the best being 

 a female one of the typical colour, the branches of which are horizontal, 

 the tips pendulous ; PENDULA VIRIDIS has bright green foliage. 



Var. SCHOTTI, Gordon (syn. viridis). Leaves bright green, habit compact, 

 pyramidal. 



Var. TRIPARTITA. A bush of spreading habit and low growth. 



J. WALLICHIANA, Hooker fil. BLACK JUNIPER. 



(J. pseudo-sabina, Hooker fil. not Fischer?) 



A tree 60 ft. high in Sikkim, according to Brandis, with spreading branches. 

 Leaves of two types (i) juvenile, in whorls of threes, \ to j in. long, sharply 

 pointed, pointing forwards, concave and very glaucous above, green and 

 keeled below, all very closely set upon the branchlet, with the stalk extending 

 down and attached to it (decurrent) ; and (2) adult leaves ^ in. long, scale- 

 like, arranged in opposite pairs overlapping each other and appressed to the 

 branchlet, pointed with the points incurved, grooved outside, bright green. 

 Male and female flowers on separate trees. Fruits egg-shaped, tapered at the 

 top, J to ^ in. long, at first dark brown, blue when ripe, one-seeded. 



Native of the Himalaya up to 15,000 ft. elevation; introduced by Sir 

 Joseph Hooker in 1849 to Kew, where there is a healthy tree about 20 ft. high. 

 This bears both types of foliage. A healthy specimen at Leonardslee has 

 mostly the juvenile type, but bore fruit in 1911, and one at Kew bears male 

 flowers. 



The true J. PSEUDO-SABINA, Fischer, is an allied species, but shrubby, and 

 has the scale-like leaves blunt or rounded at the end ; the fruits are like those 

 of Wallichiana in being one-seeded, but more globose and smaller. Native of 

 Siberia, probably not in cultivation. 



KADSURA JAPONJCA, /'#*. MAGNOLIACE^i. 



This is the only hardy member of a small genus belonging to the 

 Magnolia family, and closely related to the Schizandras, but differing 

 from them in having the fruits arranged in a globose head instead of 

 an elongated spike. K. japonica is a climbing, evergreen shrub, with 

 slender, twining branches. Leaves oval or lanceolate, slender-pointed, 

 dark green, 2 to 4 ins. long, ij to if- ins. wide; quite smooth and 

 remotely toothed. Flower solitary on a slender stalk i to ij ins. long, 

 and borne singly in the leaf-axils of the current season's growth from June 

 until autumn ; the corolla yellowish white, f in. across, composed of six 

 to nine fleshy petals. Berries scarlet, clustered in a globose head. 



Native of Japan; introduced in 1860. This interesting and un- 

 common twiner is not particularly hardy in the open, and should be 

 given the shelter of a wall. It can be increased by cuttings of half- 

 ripened wood put in gentle heat. 



Var. VARIEGATA. Leaves with an irregular border of creamy white. 



KALMIA. KRICACE^E. 



A small group of shrubs, mostly evergreen, native of Eastern 

 N. America, and named by Linnaeus in honour of Peter Kalrn, one 



