HIBISCUS 



81 



pnbescens, can be grown in Massachusetts) reduced to shrubs and bloom- 

 ing when small. 



LOBLOLLY or TAX 'B.vv' (.V_>) Gordonia Lasianthus has a pointed 

 p. id and is fully evergreen with 

 glossy notch-edged leaves 4 to 

 inches long and pure white flowers 

 L'. 1 , inches broad in July and August. 



FRANK I.I'M A ^3) Gordonia pu- 

 bescens has a globular pod and 

 deciduous leaves which turn a bril- 

 liant scarlet before dropping in the 

 autumn. The pure white flowers 

 are 3 inches broad, silky outside, 

 blooming in September and October. 



There is another plant, always 

 a >hrub, probably belonging to this 

 genus, from China, CHINESE GOR- 

 I.OXIA (54) Gordonia an6mala. 



This has almost sessile creamy- 

 white flowers 2 to 3 inches broad, 

 in November, and nearly entire- 

 edged dark evergreen oblanceolate 

 leaves 3 to 6 inches long. 



[Seeds ; layers ; twig cuttings.] FIG. 54. Chinese Gordouia. 



Cleyera ochnacea. JAPANESE 

 CLEYICISA (-">5) is a tender shrub (0 

 feet high) with alternate, glossy, 

 evergreen, entire-edged (except at 

 tip) leaves pointed at both ends ; the 

 flowers are fragrant, numerous, 

 crearny-wdiite in June ; the fruit are 

 red berries which last all winter. 

 Hardy in the Gulf states. There is 

 a variety, tricolor, with grayish 

 blotchings and white and rose-colored 

 edgings to the foliage ; the tlowei 

 has .') sepals, 2 bracts, and 5 petals; 

 the berries are 2 to 3-celled. 

 FIG. ',:,. Japanese Cleyera. [Seeds.] 



Hibiscus. The ROSE MALLOWS form a large group of mainly herba- 

 ceous plants with large hollyhock-like flowers. The only woody species 

 APC.AK'S SIIIUJHS <> 



