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Fig. 41. — Xanthoceras sorbifolia, at Dosoris, Lona; Island. — See page 2S4. 



of the most attractive of the hardy plants which our gar- with opposite pinnate leaves eight to twelve inches in 



dens owe to northern China, the region from which many length ; the leaflets are alternate, linear-oblong, acute, 



of the most beautiful trees and shrubs in cultivation have coarsely serrate, dark green and glossy on the upper sur- 



been brought. It is a leafy, glabrous or puberulous plant face and pale on the lower. The flowers are white, hand- 



