TREES AND SHRUBS 



A deciduous shrub, 12 ft.; Branches erect, flexuose ; Bark reddish-brown, 

 peeling. 



Native of Japan; introduced into France from Japan, 1868. Syn. 

 S. grandiflora. 



VIRGINIAN COFFEE BUSH, Stuartia virginica. 



Gardens. This is one of the most beautiful of all summer-flowering shrubs, 

 the large white blossoms being made especially attractive by contrast of their 

 purple and reddish filaments and greenish anthers. It does well in peat and 

 loam, or in pure loam, and even in sandy soil if moist at the roots. April — 

 July. 



Flowers white, 3^-4 ins. diam., solitary and axillary, shortly pedunculate, 

 resembling a single Camellia; Sepals 5, ovate; Petals 5, round-ovate, 1 in. long, 

 imbricate ; Stamens numerous, hypogynous, filaments purple or reddish, anthers 

 greenish ; Ovary superior, styles 5, consolidated into 1. 



Leaves alternate, oblong-ovate, obtuse or acuminate, serrulate, softly downy 

 beneath, reticulate, membranous. 



A deciduous shrub, 8 ft. 



Introduced from N. America, 1743. Syn. S. Malachodendron. Genus 

 named in honour of John Stuart, Lord Bute (1713-1792). 



Class I Dicotyledons 



Division I Thalamijlorce 



Natural Order . . . Malvacece 



Trees, shrubs, or herbs, with alternate, stipulate, simple leaves, entire or 



pahnilobed, usually with stellate hairs ; Floxvers regular, often showy ; Calyx 



gamosepalous, valvate, often with an epicalyx of 3 or more bracts ; Petals 5, 



hypogynous, twisted in bud ; Stamens indefinite, hypogynous, monadelphous ; 



Ovary superior, many-celled, placentation axile, styles united, stigmas free; 



Fruit usually a carcerulus, splitting into as many mericarps as there are 



carpels. 



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