HIBISCUS 



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pubfiscens, can be grown in Massachusetts) reduced to shrubs and bloom- 

 ing when small. 



Loblolly or Tan 'Bat' (52) — Gordonia Lasiinthus — has a pointed 

 pod and is fully evergreen with 

 glossy notch-edged leaves 4 to 6 

 inches long and pure white flowers 

 2 1 inches broad in July and August. 



Fkankli'nia (5.3) — Gordonia pu- 

 b&cens — has a globular pod and 

 deciduous leaves which turn a bril- 

 liant scarlet before dropping in the 

 autumn. The pure white flowers 

 are 3 inches broad, silky outside, 

 blooming in September and October. 



There is another plant, always 

 a shrub, probably belonging to this 

 genus, from China, Chinese Gor- 

 donia (54) — Gordonia an6mala. 

 This has almost sessile creamy- 

 while flowers 2 to 3 inches broad, 

 in November, and nearly entire- 

 edged dark evergreen oblanceolate 

 leaves 3 to inclies long. 



[Seeds ; layers ; twig cuttings.] Fig. 54. — Chinese Gordouia. 



Cleydra ochnicea. Japan-ese 

 Cleyera (55) is a tender shrub (6 

 feet high) with alternate, glossy, 

 evergreen, entire-edged (except at 

 tip) leaves pointed at both ends ; the 

 flowers are fragrant, numerous, 

 creamy-white in June ; the fruit are 

 red berries which hist all winter. 

 Hardy in the Gulf states. There is 

 a variety, tricolor, with grayish 

 blotchings and white and rose-colored 

 edgings to the foliage ; the flower 

 has 5 sepals, 2 bracts, and 5 petals; 

 the berries are 2 to 3-celled. 

 FiQ. 53. — Japanese Cleyera. [Seeds.] 



Hibiscus. The Rose Mallows form a large group of mainly herba- 

 ceous plants with large hollyhock-like flowers. The only woody species 

 apgar's shrubs — 6 



