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FLORA AND SYLVA 
raised in Messrs. Veitch'sCoombe Wood 
nursery from seeds collected by me in 
1900, and from there have been sent 
to the principal botanic gardens in this 
country, to Glasnevin,and to the Arnold 
Arboretum of the United States. At 
Coombe Wood and at Kew the plants 
have so far proved quite hardy, and in- 
deed from the elevation at which the 
trees are found in China there is no 
reason why it should not prove fully as 
hardy as the American species. 
E. H. WILSON. 
References. — Liriodendron sp. nov. Le Marchant 
Moore, Jour. Bot., vol. xiii., p. 225 (1875) ; L. tulipifera, 
Linn. var. (?) chinense, Hemsl. Index Flor:e Sinense, 
p. 25 ; L. tulipifera var. sinensis, Diels. Engler Bot. 
Jahrb., vol. xxix., p. 332 (Flora von Central China, 1901) ; 
Chinese Tulip-tree, Hemsl. in Gard. Chron. Nov. 28, 
1903, p. 370; Liriodendron chinense, Sarg. Trees and 
Shrubs, tab. 52 ; Liriodendron chinense, Sarg. Hook. Ic. 
PI. tab. 278s. 
TRICUSPIDARIA. 
Whether it be mere coincidence, or 
the outcome of some law acting in ways 
still unknown to us, certain it is that the 
coast region of western South America is 
remarkable for the brilliance of its flow- 
ers, among which are the Lapageria,the 
Mutisias, Mitraria, many brilliant Fuch- 
sias, the Embothrium, Berberidopsis, 
Desfontainea, Philesia, and amongst 
trailing herbs the Flame- Nasturtium 
( T?'opieoium speciosuni) .Buteveninsuch 
a galaxy the Tj^iciispidaria depe?ide7is — 
still better known as Crinodendron — is 
able to hold its own for fine colour. It 
grows in the low moist valleys of Chili 
and Peru, reaching the size of a tall 
shrub or low tree of 15 to 20 feet, with 
a trunk sometimes as much as 8 inches in 
diameter. The brilliant drooping flow- 
ers cover the plants from November — 
the beginning of the southern summer 
— and last for several months, spring- 
I ing singly or in pairs from the axils of 
the leaves, especially upon the upper 
branches. They are peculiar in shape, 
hanging like large waxen bells upon very 
long slender stems, the upper part broad 
and inflated while the mouth is at first 
closed by the incurving petals and only 
half-open when ^ nature. Their colour 
is mostly clear coral-pink, with some- 
times a trace of orange-scarlet, but this 
form of the plant is rare. Variation in 
leaf and habit is more common in the 
wild plants, but in the best-known form 
the leaves are very like those of a Bog 
I Myrtle (J^/yr/r^^), dark green, wrinkled, 
somewhat fleshy, and sharply toothed in 
the upper half. A peculiarity of the plant 
is the slow development of its flower- 
buds which are fully formed in the early 
autumn many months before they ex- 
pand ; in severe winters they are some- 
times destroyed with the loss ofaseason's 
beauty, even though the plant may not 
I suffer in other ways. 
This beautiful shrub was several times 
i introduced to English gardens, coddled 
in hothouses, and lost. Tried again by 
Messrs. Veitch some 25 years ago it is 
now thriving in many parts of Britain 
as a hardy shrub, and quite happy in 
an unheated house in the colder parts 
of the country. A cool moist atmos- 
j phere such as prevails around the coast 
of Ireland and the west of Britain is 
the secret of success with this, as with 
other Chilian plants. In many parts of 
Ireland and the western coasts of Scot- 
land it does especially well in the open 
air and is rarely injured by cold. The 
flowers open in April and May and so 
freely that on a little plant of only 4 
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