ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 

 BULLETIN 



MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. 



No. 78.] JUNE. [1893. 



CCCIV.— TAGASASTE. 



(Cytisus proliferus, L. xnv. palmensis, Chr.) 



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p. 18; 1880, p. 16; 1881, p. 13; 1882° p. 22 and huh'- k'! ,"' Ih.ilc'ti.i 

 1891, p. 239. This plant was brought into notice by the late Dr. 

 Victor Perez of Orotava, Teneriffe, and it was entirely ilinm-li the 

 personal exertions of this estimable g« nil.-mnn that so much informati m 

 has l>een obtained respecting it and that seed of so useful a plant h&s 

 been placed at the disposal of persons in various parts of the world for 

 experimental purposes. Dr. IVivz sent many supplies direct to Kew 

 with results that have already been recorded. During a visit to Teneriffe 

 in the early part of this year I had many opportunities of seeing the 



Canary hut probably to a much le-s extent than in Teneriffe. It is not 

 infrequently seen as a cultivated plant in English ureenhouses where its 

 silky leaves and abundant white flowers render it a very attractive 

 object. In Teneriffe it forms a large bush or tree with a stout woody 

 stein sometimes attaining a height of 8 to 10 feet. The branches are of 

 a ilender di ; overed with teraate leaves on short 



clothed on the underside by copious silky adpro-sed hair-. These hairs 

 are ^enerallv white but in some case- they are fulvous or e\en of a rich 

 brown colour. The flowers ( 'also silky in bud), are snow-white when 

 fully expanded and attached in loo-ely-paehed umbel- on the -ides of the 

 branches. The pedicels are of a rosy colour. After flowering the bud in 

 the centre of each umbel usually grows out into a branch— an appearance 

 of proliferation which has suggested the -pontic name. The pods are 



oblong pointed an 1 densely pilose m the \ouie_: -tale. I Ins is the typical 

 plant known as •' Hsrabon " oidinarih met vv ith in the mountainous parts 

 in Teneriffe. There are several fb- : the sizeof the 



leaves and the colours of the flowers. None of them, however, possess 

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