CHAP. V. ORNAMENTAL TREES, SHRUBS, ETC. 593 



mental solely for their foliage, not bearing flowers worthy of 

 notice. 



Panax. 



1. P. cochleatum. A small shrub with bright dark-green 

 foliage, the leaves in form resembling shallow sauce-ladles. 



2. P. fruticosum. A small shrub, rather ornamental for its 

 dense finely split foliage, a sprig of which forms a pretty addition 

 to a bouquet. 



Aralia. 



A. papyrifera BICE-PAPER PLANT. A shrub bearing resem- 

 blance to the Castor-oil plant, except that the leaves have a hoary- 

 white appearance ; introduced into this country by Mr. Fortune ; 

 bears in the Cold season large mealy-looking heads of small white 

 flowers. The flowers-terns die down after flowering, and the pith 

 they contain is the true rice-paper of the Chinese. It is in this 

 that the interest of the plant consists, rather than in any orna- 

 mental character it possesses. Propagated by the suckers it 

 sends up for some distance around, as well as by seed, which it 

 produces abundantly. 



Hedera. 



H. Helix COMMON IVY. Manages to exist as a small pot- 

 plant, but makes no growth, and except for association is un- 

 worthy a place in the garden. 



COKXACE.E. 



Aucuba. 



Au. Japonica. This fine mottle-leaved shrub, so familiar in 

 English gardens, can only with great difficulty be kept alive here. 

 A specimen or two in a small pot is all that I have seen of it in 

 this country. 



SANTALACE^]. 

 Santalum. 



S. album SANDAL-WOOD-TKEE Chundun. A small tree, 



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