Halesia 1603 



This is intermediate between H. Carolina and H. diptera ; and, as Koch points 

 out, is probably a hybrid. It has the deeply partite corolla and hairy filaments of 

 the latter species, but resembles the former in foliage. The wings of the fruit are 

 four in number, as in H Carolina, but are much narrower than in that species. 



This variety or hybrid occurs in the wild state, as shown by specimens from 

 Carolina and Florida in the Kew Herbarium. It appears to be much commoner in 

 cultivation ' than the species. All the old trees in England, and one in the Botanic 

 Garden at Berlin dating from the time of Willdenow, belong to H. stenocarpa. 



2. Var. mollis, Lange, in Bot. Tidsk. xix. i, p. 258, fig. 2, a-g (1894). 



Leaves in shape, colour beneath, and minute serrations, similar to the type, but 

 densely tomentose with stellate hairs on the lower surface. Corolla 2 deeply divided 

 to near the base into four lobes ; filaments pubescent. Fruit as in the type. 



This, which mainly differs from the typical form in the deeply divided corolla, is 

 of unknown origin. It is represented at Kew by a shrub about 5 ft. high, which 

 was planted in 1887. 



3. Var. glabrescens, Lange, in Bot. Tidsk. xix. 1, p. 257, fig. 1 (1894). 



Leaves narrowly elliptic, up to 6 in. long and 2 in. broad, gradually tapering to 

 a long acuminate apex, sparingly stellate-pubescent beneath. Corolla 2 with four 

 shallow lobes. Fruit with four very narrow wings. 



This, the origin of which is unknown, is represented at Kew by a dense shrub, 

 about 12 ft. high, which suckers very freely, and produces flowers and fruit, as 

 described above. 



4. Var. Meehani, Sargent, in Garden and Forest, v. 611 (1892). 

 Halesia Meehani, Meehan, in Garden and Forest, v. 534, fig. 91 (1892). 



A round bush, attaining about 12 ft. in height. Leaves thick, wrinkled, pale, 

 and on young vigorous plants often conspicuously glandular-serrate. Flowers 

 smaller than in the type, with a short calyx-tube, and a cup-shaped corolla not narrowed 

 at the base ; pedicels not exceeding \ in. in length. 



This was found in Meehan's nursery at Germantown, Philadelphia, as a solitary 

 plant in a bed of seedlings raised from the seed of a tree of H. Carolina. It bore 

 fruit abundantly, and one of the seedlings raised from it seemed exactly similar to 

 H. Carolina. According to Wyman, 3 the flowers last longer than in the other kinds 

 of Halesia. It is not in cultivation, so far as I know, in England. (A. H.) 



Distribution 



H. Carolina was first described by Catesby in the Natural History of Carolina. 

 It ranges from the mountains of West Virginia to southern Illinois, and south- 



1 Halesia tetraptera, var. dialypetala, Rehder, in Mitt. Deut. Dend. Ges. 1907, p. 75, described from a tree in the 

 Arnold Arboretum, is probably H. stenocarpa. 



2 Lange describes the corolla in var. mollis as divided to the middle, and in var. glabrescens as deeply divided to the 

 base ; but in specimens at Kew identical in other respects with these varieties, the corolla is as stated above. It is possible 

 that the flowers may vary in these varieties, when they are raised from seed. 



3 In Bailey, Cyc. Amcr. Hcrrt. 710, fig. 10 1 7 (1900). 



