﻿64 SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



42183 to 42199— Continued. 



42187. Caeagana microphylla Lam. Fabacere. Altagana. 

 " Native of north-central Asia from Siberia to China ; introduced in 



1789. It flowers in May and June and is readily distinguished from all 

 other species by the number and small size of its leaflets, the smallest 

 scarcely one-eighth inch long. It is a shrub of graceful habit, much 

 wider than high (16 feet in diameter at Kew), the branches being long, 

 slender, but little divided, and ultimately more or less pendent. Grafted 

 on standards of Caragcma arborescens it makes a small tree, but sucker 

 growths from the stock are often troublesome. It is suitable as a speci- 

 men for a lawn." (IF. J. Bean, Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British 

 Isles, vol. 1, p. 291.) 



42188. Cornus bretschneideri Henry. Cornacere. 



" A species with the young wood of a blood-red color ; leaves opposite, 

 lanceolate-ovate, dark green above, glaucous beneath ; fruits blackish blue. 

 China." (Kew Bulletin, 1000, p. 41.) 



42189. Hydrangea bretschneideri Dipp. Hydrangeacere. 



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

 peeling ; young branches smooth. Corymbs flattened, 4 to 6 inches across, 

 with a considerable number of large sterile flowers at the margins ; these 

 are three-fourths to li inches across, the three or four sepals rounded or 

 obovate, white, afterwards rosy. The small, perfect flowers are dull 

 white. Native of China ; introduced from the mountains about Peking in 

 1882, by Dr. Bretschneider. Planted in a sunny position in good soil, 

 this makes a really handsome shrub, flowering in June and July, per- 

 fectly hardy and always vigorous." (TF. J. Bean, Trees and Shrubs Hardy 

 in the British Isles, vol. 1, p. 624.) 



42190. Hydrangea xanthoneura wilsonii Rehder. Hydrangeacea?. 

 "A deciduous shrub, 8 feet or perhaps more high, of loose, thin habit, 



sending out long slender branches. Leaves in threes, ovate or oval, with 

 a short, slender point, dark green and smooth above, pale beneath. In- 

 florescence a flatfish, corymbose panicle, 5 or 6 inches across, margined 

 with creamy white, sterile flowers 1| inches across. Perfect flowers one- 

 fourth inch across, dull white. Native of central China ; introduced 

 for Messrs. Veitch by Wilson about 1904. It is a shrub of elegant and 

 distinct habit and with considerable beauty in flower. It has, perhaps, 

 some affinity with Hydrangea bretschneideri, but is, as yet, imperfectly 

 known in gardens." (W. J. Bean, Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British 

 Isles, vol. 1, p. 631.) 



" The variety differs from the species (which has bright reddish brown 

 bractlets with the bark without lenticels and soon separating into thin 

 flakes) in having the new bractlets of each year grayish yellow while 

 those of the previous year are grayish or light brown and marked with 

 pale lenticels and the young leaves slightly appressed pubescent be- 

 neath." (Sargent, Plantae Wilsonianae, part 1, p. 27.) 



42191. Hedysarum esculentum Ledeb. Fabacea?. 



"An erect Siberian Hedysarum with yellowish white flowers. Accord- 

 ing to Gmelin, the root is eaten by the natives of Jakutsk. 



42192. Hedysarum feavescens Regel and Schmalh. Fabacese. 



A suberect branching Hedysarum with yellow flowers, closely related 

 to Hedysarum neglect urn and H. dasycarpum. From the mountains of 

 Kokan at Lake Iskander-Kul, at 7,000 feet altitude. 



