HYPEBICUM 



CAMELLIA OBDEB 



ACTINIDIA 267 



and has become very popular of late 

 years. There is a beautiful variegated 

 form called tricolor, the leaves of which 

 are blotched vsfith white, green, and rosy- 

 carmine. 



Culture dc. as above, p. 265. 



H. nummularium. — A Pyrenean species 

 3-6 in. high, with round ascending stems, 

 and roundish stalked leaves. Flowers in 

 summer, racemose. 



Culture dc. as above, p. 265. 



H. orientate. — A native of the Levant, 

 6-12 in. high, with erect, slender, 2-angled 

 stems. Leaves stem-clasping, linear, 

 blunt, erect, fringed with glandular hairs. 

 Flowers in summer. 



Culture dc. as above, p. 265. 



H. patulum. — A Japanese species 6 ft. 

 high, with round, purplish, herbaceous 

 stems. Leaves ovate lance-shaped, 

 acute, tapering to the base, revolute. at 

 the edges, without dots. 



Culture dc. as above. Seeds freely 

 produced. 



H. perforatum {Common St. John's 

 Wort). — A native of the copses ■ and 

 hedge-banks in the British Islands, and 

 also distributed in the north temperate 

 regions. It grows about 3 ft. high and 

 has slender brown stems. Leaves sessile, 

 oblong, with pellucid dots and occasionally 

 a few black ones beneath. Flowers from 

 July to September, 1 in. across ; sepals 



lance-shaped acute, entire, with a few 

 glandular lines or dots. 



Culture dc. as above. Seeds freely 

 produced. 



H. prolificum. — A round-stemmed 

 species with angular branches, 1-2 ft., 

 high, native of N. America. Leaves 

 linear lance-shaped, with revolute edges, 

 fall of pellucid dots. Flowers in summer,, 

 corymbose. H. densiflorum is closely 

 related, but has narrower leaves and 

 smaller flowers. 



Culture dc. as above. Seeds freely 

 produced. 



H. pyramidatum. — AN. American 

 species 4 ft. high, with winged herbace- 

 ous stems. Leaves stem-elasping, oblong- 

 lanoe-shaped, acute, with revolute edges. 

 Flowers in summer, large, on short thick 

 stalks. 



Culture dc. as above, p. 265. 



H. triflorum. — A half-hardy smooth- 

 stemmed species, native of the mountains 

 of Java. Leaves membranous, ovate- 

 oblong, bluntish, full of pellucid dots.- 

 Flowers in summer, -solitary, usually in 

 threes on terminal stalks. 



Culture dc. as above, p. 265. 



H. uralum. — A native of Nepaul 2 ft.. 

 high, with 2-edged compressed branches. 

 Leaves eUiptic, abruptly pointed, smooth, 

 shining. Flowers in summer, terminal, 

 somewhat corymbose. 



Culture dc. as above, p. 265. 



XXIII. TERNSTRCEMIACEiE— Camellia Order 



An order containing over 30 genera and 260 species of trees and shrubs, rarely 

 climbers. Leaves alternate, rarely opposite, simple and entire or rarely 

 digitately 3-5-lobed, or often serrate, leathery, penni-nerved. Stipules none, 

 or very rarely, minute, and very caducous. Flov^ers regular, hermaphrodite, 

 or rarely diclinous. Sepals 5, rarely 4, or 6-7, free, or slightly cohering at 

 the base, imbricate, the inner ones often larger. Petals 5, rarely 4, or 6-9, 

 hypogynous, free or often cohering in a short tube or ring at the base, much 

 imbricated or twisted. Stamens usually numerous, rarely equal in number 

 to the petals, hypogynous, free or often connate with each other at the base, 

 or adnata to the base of the corolla. Disc none. Ovary free. Peduncles 1- 

 or many-flowered ; or flowers in terminal or axillary racemes, rarely in elongated 

 panicles, often with 2 bracteoles beneath the calyx. 



ACTINIDIA. — A genus containing 

 about 8 species of ornamental, climbing, 

 smooth, stiffly hairy or woolly shrubs. 



with entire or serrate leaves often mem- 

 branaceous, penni-nerved. Flowers poly- 

 gamous or dioecious. Sepals 5, slightly 



