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THE GAKDENER'S ASSISTANT. 



C. incanus. — This has very hoary wrinkled leaves, and 

 reddish-purple flowers in June or July. About 3 or 4 

 feet high. South Europe, 1597. 



Fig. 860.— Choisya temata. 



C. ladanifcrus, Gum Cistus (fig. 361). — Resembles C. 

 cyprius, but the leaves are not stalked; flowers borne in 

 clusters of three or four. Spain and Portugal, 1629. 



C. laurif alius. — This is the hardiest of all, and is 

 remarkable for its strongly three-nerved leaves, densely 

 woolly beneath, and white spotted flowers. An evergreen 

 5 feet high. South of France, 1771. 



C. pojmlifolius. — A distinct species, of large growth, 

 with heart-shaped or oval wrinkled leaves <»n long stalks, 

 and white flowers tinged with yellow in the centre. 

 France, &c, 1656. 



C. purpureus. — From 3 to 4 feet high; leaves oblong- 

 lanceolate wrinkled ; flowers reddish-purple, with a dark 

 blotch near the base of each petal. Levant, 1659. 



Cladrastis. — Small trees, with unequally pinnate 

 leaves, and showy white or yellow pea-shaped flowers. 



C. amurensis [Maackia amurensis). — A shrub 8 feet 

 high, with long, erect racemes of small, densely-packed, 

 greenish-white flowers. Amoor Valley, 1878. 



C. Hnetoria [Virgilia lutea), Yellow-wood. — A round- 

 headed tree 20 to 30 feet high. Flowers white, borne in 

 drooping racemes during May. North America, 1812. 



Clematis. — Owing to the rapidity of its growth, and 

 the variety, size, and brilliancy of its flowers, this genus 

 is especially valuable in the garden. The simple, ternate, 

 or pinnate leaves, the stalks of which twine round other 

 plants, are ornamental. The flowers are white, blue, red, 

 or yellow. Almost all of them thrive well on a chalky 

 soil, and flower in summer. The garden varieties are 

 specially dealt with elsewhere. 



('. alpina (Atragcnc alpine). — 3 to 4 feet high, with 

 solitary violet-blue flowers on long stalks, appearing in 



May or June. C. sibirica is a variety with yellowish- 

 white flowers. South Europe, &c, 1792. 



C. Flammula. — This is one of the most ornamental of 

 the genus for covering trellises, arbours, walls, &c. It 

 has pinnate dark-green leaves, and white fragrant flowers, 

 produced in great profusion from July till October. South 

 Europe, &c. 



C. florida.— This was the first introduced of the large- 

 flowered Japanese species. There are both single and 

 double white -flowered varieties. C. Sieboldii has flowers 

 with a purple -violet centre. 



C. Fortunei. — Leaves thick ; flowers large, white, double, 

 fragrant, about 6 inches across, and consisting of about 

 100 sepals. Japan, 1863. 



C. lanuginosa. — This has large, usually simple heart- 

 shaped leaves, hairy beneath, and very large and hand- 

 some pale- blue or lilac flowers 9 inches in diameter. 

 China, 1851. 



C. montana. — A highly ornamental species, with white 

 flowers of medium size produced in mild seasons in April. 

 North India. 



C. patens (C. azurca).- — A Japanese species, introduced 

 in 1836, having bluish-lilac flowers 5 to 6 inches across, 

 produced about May and June. It is one of the parents 

 of numerous garden hybrids. 



C. Viorna. — This has different flowers from any of the 

 preceding. They are pendulous, tubular, and inflated, 

 the sepals curled backwards at the top, of a leathery con- 

 sistence, and yellowish-white tinged with purple. North 

 America, 1730. 



C. Vitalba, Old Man's Beard or Lady's Bower. — A use- 

 ful quick-growing climber, suitable for covering unsightly 

 objects. It has small, greenish- white, fragrant flowers, fol- 

 lowed by ornamen- 

 tal feathery carpels, 

 which are attractive 

 in winter. British. 



C. Viticella.— One 

 of the parents of many 

 of the hybrid varie- 

 ties raised. Flowers 

 purple, blue, violet, or 

 rose, of medium size, 

 appearing all through 

 the summer. South 

 Europe, 1569. 



Clerodendron/cb- 

 tidum {C. Bungei). — 

 A species that will 

 succeed in most parts 

 of the kingdom ; and 

 although cut down to 

 the ground by severe 

 frost it usually sur- 

 vives and grows up 

 again in summer, and 

 is an ornamental 

 autumn - flowering 

 shrub. It is armed 

 with a few scattered 

 spines, has large coi - 

 date leaves, and larg-e 

 terminal corymbs of 

 lilac - rose flowers. 

 1820. 

 C. trichotomum. — The hardiest and best of the Clero- 

 dendrons. It forms a large bush or small tree with large 

 cordate leaves and terminal cymes of flowers, the calyx of 



Fig. 361 —Cistus lartaniferus. 



