﻿86 SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



43810 to 43925— Continued. 



43844. Dieevilla middendorffiana Carr. Caprifoliacese. 

 " Var. Maximowiczii." 



Apparently an undescribed horticultural variety. 



43845. Enkianthus campant;latt;s (Miquel) Nicholson. Ericaceae. 



A Japanese shrub, 15 or occasionally 30 feet high, with elliptic leaves 

 up to 3 inches long and yellowish or pale-orange flowers with darker veins 

 borne in drooping racemes. One of the handsomest species and the most 

 vigorous grower. In autumn the foliage turns a brilliant red. (Adapted 

 from Bailey, Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, vol. 2, p. 1115.) 



43846. Enkianthus ceentjus edbens (Maxim.) Makino. Ericaceae. 



A Japanese shrub up to 15 feet high, with bright-green, serrate leaves 

 from 1 to 2 inches long, red flowers one-third of an inch long, and capsules 

 on hanging stalks turned upward at the end. In the typical species the 

 flowers are white. It is hardy in Massachusetts and is propagated by 

 seeds sown in the spring, by cuttings of ripe wood under glass in spring, 

 by greenwood cuttings in summer, and by layering. (Adapted from 

 Bailey, Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, vol. 2, p. 1115.) 



43847. Euonymus radicans acutus Render. Celastracea\ 



A low, procumbent shrub from central China, with climbing and rooting 

 branches and elliptic, sharp-pointed leaves having dull-green upper sur- 

 faces and white veins. The greenish white flowers are in slender cymes, 

 and the fruit is a pale pink, globular capsule. (Adapted from Bailey, 

 Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, vol. 2, p. 1188.) 



43848. Hydrangea opulotdes sereata (Thunb.) Rehder. Hydrangea cere. 

 (H. serrata DC.) 



A Japanese bush growing about 1£ feet high, with elliptic, serrate, 

 sharp-pointed leaves from 2 to 4 inches long and pinkish or bluish 

 flowers in flat cymes. (Adapted from Dippel, Handbuch der Laubholz- 

 kunde, vol. 3, pp. 325, 326, fig. 173.) 



43849. Hypericum patultjm henryi Bean. Hypericacese. 



St.-John's-wort. 



A spreading evergreen Chinese shrub, 1£ to 3 feet high, with smooth, 

 purplish, 2--edged branches, oval, obtuse leaves 2 to 3 inches long, and 

 yellow flowers 2 to 2\ inches wide. This variety is hardier than the other 

 forms of this species and grows more vigorously. (Adapted from Bailey, 

 Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, vol. 3, p. 1631.) 



43850. Indigofera amblyantha Craib. Fabacere. Indigo. 

 An upright shrub from central China, 3 to 6 feet high, with compound 



bright-green leaves from 4 to 6 inches long, very numerous small pink 

 flowers in slender, axillary racemes and linear, hairy pods. The pink 

 flowers bloom all summer long, and the shrub is propagated by cuttings 

 and seeds. (Adapted from Bailey, Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, 

 vol.3, p. 1646.) 



43851. Larix potanini Batal. Pinacese. Larch. 

 A tree from western China, from 60 to 70 feet high, with yellowish 



young shoots and somewhat pointed leaves about an inch long. The 

 cones are egg shaped and about li inches long. This tree has much the 



