374 



TREES AND SHRUBS 



Name. 



Country or 



Origin and 



Natural Order. 



Colour 



AND 



Season. 



General Remarks. 



Halesia corymbosa 



Japan, in the 

 province of Higo 



White, 

 tinted with 

 pink or 

 yellow ; 

 Spring 



H. diptera 



H. hispida 



South-eastern 

 United States 



China and Japan. 



Introduced about 



1870 



White ; 

 late Spring 



White 



Mr. Bean writes in The Garden, 

 May ig, 1900, p. 361, about 

 this species as follows : "I 

 do not know if there is any 

 authenticated instance of its 

 having flourished in Britain 

 or even in Europe, most 

 plants so called being H. 

 hispida. It was first found 

 on the mountains of the 

 most southern of the main 

 islands of Japan, in the pro- 

 vince of Higo, and may 

 possibly not be quite so 

 hardy as H. hispida. Judg- 

 ing by pictures and dried 

 specimens, its racemes, whilst 

 having much the same 

 general character as that 

 species, ai-e shorter, broader, 

 and more branched, and the 

 flowers are not so numerous 

 on the branches of the ra- 

 cemes, and the fruits are 

 moredownythanbristly. The 

 flowers have the same one- 

 sided arrangement on the 

 racemes. 



Not a common species, and 

 dwarfer than H. tetraptera. 

 The flowers are white, Snow- 

 dropjlike, and are borne on 

 slender pendulous stalks as 

 in H. tetraptera ; they differ, 

 however, in having the 

 corolla almost lobed to the 

 base. Very distinctive is 

 the seed-vessel, which has 

 but two prominent wings, 

 the other two being only 

 rudimentary. Whilst not 

 perhaps equal in merit to 

 H. tetraptera this species ap- 

 pears to have been undeserv- 

 edly neglected. Its dwarf 

 bushy habit will also render 

 it more suitable for some 

 positions ; it loves abimdant 

 moisture at the root. It 

 blossoms rather later than 

 H. tetraptera. 



This belongs to the Asiatic 

 group of Halesias, and is 

 very distinct from the Ameri- 

 can'species. It is a vigorous 

 shrub, a small tree with large 

 oblong leaves, and small 

 flowers, which are very 

 numerous on the raceme, 

 which is 4 inches to 8 inches 

 long. One striking pecu- 



