ADDISONIA 59 
(Plate 70) 
RAPHIOLEPIS OVATA 
Seacoast Raphiolepis 
Native of southern Japan and Korea 
Family PoMACEAE APPLE Family 
Raphiolepis ovata Briot, Rev. Hort. 42-43: 348. 1871. 
An evergreen shrub or small tree up to twelve feet tall, with 
upright branches. ‘The leaves, which are dark green and lustrous 
above and paler and dull beneath, are thick and leathery, and 
glabrous, except the young ones which are covered with rusty 
hairs when first emerging, the hairs however soon disappearing; 
the blades, on petioles three quarters of an inch long or less, are 
elliptic to obovate, obtuse or rounded at the apex, commonly 
cuneate at the base, up to three inches long and an inch and a half 
broad, the margin, which-i is usually revolute, more or less crenate- 
serrate above the middle. The white flowers, about three quarters 
of an inch in diameter, are in dense panicles, the axis and divisions 
of which are covered with rusty hairs. The calyx is clothed with 
about an eighth of an inch long. The petals are about three 
aehehs of an inch long, obovate. The fifteen to twenty stamens 
are shorter than the petals, the filaments flat and glabrous. The 
Styles are about as long as the stamens. The fruit, black with a 
slight bloom, has a diameter of about one third of an inch, and 
contains ae a single nearly globular seed somewhat smaller 
than the frui 
This ia while not hardy in the north, is reported to stand 
about ten degrees of frost and is hardy in the southern states and 
in California. In the north it should be grown in a cool house, in 
a compost of sandy loam and leaf-mold. The plant from which 
this illustration was made was secured by the New York Botanical 
Garden in 1900, and has flowered and frnited repeatedly. Propa- 
gation is effected by means of seeds; by cuttings late in summer 
of ripened wood; and layering, and grafting on the thorn are 
Sometimes resorted to. 
Ggorce V. Nasu. 
EXPLANATION OF Puate. Fig. 1,—Flowering branch. Fig. 2.—Flower, 
longitudinal section. Fig. 3.—Fruiting branch. Fig. 4.—Seed. 
