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China, Japan, and California. Name from <o>Tg/os, shining, 

 from the laurel-like foliage. Handsome shrubs, requiring pro- 

 tection in very severe weather. 



1. Ph. serrulata, syn. Cratcegus glabra. A handsome shrub 

 with large Laurel-like coriaceous leaves and terminal flat 

 corymbs of small white flowers. A native of China and Japan. 



2. Ph. arbutifdlia, syn. Cratcegus arbutifolia. As the name 

 implies, the foliage of this closely resembles that of the common 

 Arbutus. The flowers are larger, in an elongated panicle, and 

 the petioles and young branches bright red. This is a native 

 of California. 



3. Ph. Japonica, syn. Eriobotrya Jap6nica. Loquat. 

 Leaves large, oblong, rugose, downy beneath. Flowers white, 

 appearing in November. Fruit about the size of a small apple, 

 pale orange-red, rarely produced in the open air in England, 

 even against a wall. The fruit is edible, and grown in con- 

 siderable quantities in the South of France. A native of China 

 and Japan. 



13. RAPHIOLEJPIS. 



Evergreen shrubs or trees with simple coriaceous leaves and 

 white or pink flowers. Calyx-limb deciduous. Berry pulpy, 

 1- or 2-celled, 1- or 2-seeded. A small genus of about five 

 species from Japan and China, closely allied to Photinia. 

 Name from pafyis, a needle, and ASTUS-, a scale, referring to the 

 slender bracts. 



1. R. ovata. A handsome shrub with glossy dark green 

 oval or obovate leaves crowded at the end of the branches. 

 Flowers white, fragrant, about eight lines in diameter, arranged 

 in large terminal thyrsoid panicles. Japan. 



14. AMELlNCHIER. 



Small trees or shrubs with alternate simple deciduous leaves 

 and white racemose flowers. Calyx urceolate ; lobes persistent. 

 Berry imperfectly 4- to 10-celled ; cells 1 -seeded. Only four 

 species are known, but they are widely dispersed, occurring 

 in the Mediterranean region, Japan, and North America. 

 Amelanchier is the Savoy name of the Medlar. A. vulgaris 

 and A. Canadensis with their varieties are elegant small 

 trees with oblong, oval or nearly orbicular toothed leaves 

 and white racemose flowers in early Spring. Some of the 



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