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allied to E. europaeus, but is distinguished by the brown-purple 

 anthers. I have not seen it in flower, but there is a fine bush in the 

 vicarage garden at Bitton, near Bristol, where its leaves turn a 

 brilliant red in early autumn." (W. J. Bean, Trees and Shrubs 

 Hardy in the British Isles, vol. 1, p. 5. '{3-5)).) 



40181. Helianthemum formosum (Curt.) Dunal. Cistacese. 



"A low shrub with wide-spreading branches, growing 2 to 3 feet high, 

 but more in width, the young shoots erect, the whole plant gray with 

 short down, intermixed with which are numerous whitish, stellate, or 

 long simple hairs. Leaves oblong, oval, or obovate ; one-half to 1$ inches 

 long, one-fourth to one-half inch wide; 3-nerved at the narrowed base, 

 the apex rounded or abruptly pointed. Flowers borne at the end of 

 short side twigs, clustered, but appearing successively ; each flower is 

 1* inches in diameter, bright rich yellow, each petal with a conspicuous 

 brownish purple blotch near, but not reaching to, the base. Sepals 

 three, ovate, taper pointed, very hairy. Native of central and south 

 Portugal ; introduced in 17S0 ; perhaps the most beautiful of all the sun 

 roses we cultivate. It is perfectly hardy, and I have never seen it per- 

 manently injured by frost, even 30° to 32°. It is admirable for covering 

 a dry, sunny bank, and remains well furnished with foliage through the 

 winter. It commences to flower in May." (W. J. Bean, Trees and 

 Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles, vol. 1, p. 612.) 



40182. Hydrangea bretschneideri Dippel. Hydrangeacea?. 



See S. P. I. No. 3S812 for previous introduction and description. 



"A deciduous shrub, 8 to 10 feet high, forming a sturdy bush, old bark 

 peeling; young branches smooth. Leaves oblong to ovate, 3 to 5 inches 

 long. 1 to 2i inches wide; rounded or wedge shaped at the base, slender 

 pointed, regularly toothed; dull and smooth above, hairy on the veins 

 and sometimes over the whole surface beneath. Corymbs flattened, 

 4 to 6 inches across, with a considerable number of large sterile 

 flowers at the margins ; these are three-fourths to 11 inches across, 

 the three or four sepals rounded or obovate, white, afterwards rosy. 

 The small, perfect flowers are dull white; flower stalks clothed with 

 erect bristly down. The seed vessels are egg shaped, the persistent calyx 

 forming a raised band round the middle. Native of China ; introduced 

 from the mountains about Peking, in 1882, by Dr. Bretschneider. 

 Planted in a sunny position in good soil, it makes a really handsome 

 shrub, flowering in June and July, perfectly hardy and always vigorous." 

 (W. J. Bean, Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles, vol. 1, p. 624.) 



40183. Indigofera gerardiana Wallich. Fabacea?. 



"A deciduous shrub with downy, slightly ribbed branches. At Kew, 

 where it is almost invariably cut back to the ground each winter, it sends 

 up a dense thicket of erect, scarcely branched shoots, 2 to 4 feet high, 

 clothed from top to bottom with leaves. Where the climate is milder 

 the shoots survive, and it then becomes a much-branched shrub, perhaps 

 6 or 8 feet high. On a wall at Kew it is 10 feet high. Leaves pinnate, 

 2 to 4 inches long, composed of 6 to 10 pairs of leaflets and an odd one; 

 leaflets three-eighths to five-eighths inch long, obovate or oval, clothed with 

 gray appressed hairs on both sides, the apex notched or rounded and 

 having a short, bristlelike tip. Racemes produced from the leaf axils in 

 succession from below upward, on the terminal part of the shoot. They 



