﻿48 SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



40561 to 40600— Continued. 



ovate, long and slenderly pointed, downy outside and at the edges. Seed 

 vessels crowned with long, feathered styles. Native of central Asia; 

 introduced to Kew from St. Petersburg in 1898. It is the handsomest 

 yellow-flowered clematis in cultivation, the finest flowers being about 

 4 inches across. It differs from C. orient alls in the larger flowers and 

 in the downy stems, flower stalks, etc. It is a superior plant." (W. J. 

 Bean, Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles, vol. 1, p. 367.) 

 40571 and 40572. Cotoneaster sp. Malaceae. 



40571. " 32 Forrest. A very handsome trailing bush." 



40572. " 33 Forrest." 



40573. Convolvulus cneorum L. Convolvulacece. 



"An evergreen, very leafy shrub, 2 to 3 feet high, covered with silky 

 hairs that give the entire younger part of the plant a beautiful silvery 

 aspect. Leaves shortly stalked, alternate, narrowly oblong or oblanceolate, 

 1 to 1\ inches long, one-eighth to one-half inch wide, always tapered at 

 the base, but either pointed or rounded at the apex. Flowers in a terminal 

 umbel, but opening successively during the summer ; they are of the trum- 

 pet-mouthed type common to ' morning-glory,' being \\ inches long, rather 

 more across, of flimsy texture, white tinged with pink, yellow in the tube; 

 calyx as long as the corolla tube, silky. Native of southern Europe ; cul- 

 tivated in England, according to Aiton, in 1640. It is not quite hardy 

 near London except against a wall, but thrives in the south and west. 

 There are five strips of silky hairs traversing the corolla lengthwise out- 

 side. It needs a dry sunny spot, and can be increased very readily by 

 cuttings during the summer and placed in gentle heat." (W. J. Bean, 

 Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles, vol. 1, p. 380.) 

 40574 to 40579. Cotoneaster spp. Malaceae. Cotoneaster. 



40574. Cotoneaster dammeri radicans Schneider. 



This variety differs from the typical form described under S. P. I. 

 No. 40163 in its long peduncles and constantly one or two flowered 

 racemes. The fruit is globose and bright scarlet, and the normal 

 habit of this plant prostrate and rooting. (Adapted from Sargent, 

 Plantae Wilsonianae, vol. 1, p. 176.) 

 40575. Cotoneaster dielsiana Pritzel. 



"A deciduous shrub, 8 feet, perhaps more, high, with long, extremely 

 slender, arching or quite pendulous branches ; branchlets downy when 

 young. Leaves one-half to 11 inches long, three-eighths to 1 inch 

 wide, ovate; hairy above when young, covered beneath with felt, at 

 first white, afterwards pale brown ; veins prominent. Flowers 3 to 

 7 in a cluster, terminating side shoots 1 inch or so long ; calyx and 

 flower stalk hairy ; calyx lobes shallowly triangular. Fruit scarlet, 

 round or rather pear shaped, one-fourth inch long. 



" Native of central China ; introduced for Messrs. Veitch by Wilson 

 in 1900. It flowers in June, and the fruit is in full color in September 

 and October ; it is then one of the most effective of Cotoneasters. The 

 habit is singularly graceful, the long whiplike shoots spreading out- 

 ward and downward in every direction. The name ' applanata ' refers 

 to the distichous arrangement of the branches of young plants, which 

 give them the appearance of a wall-trained tree." (W. J. Bean, Trees 

 and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles, vol. 1, p. ^08.) 





