Trees and shrubs, hardy in the British isles . ne, and can be easily propagated by late summer cuttings. CARAGANA 289 C. BREVISPINA, Royle. A deciduous shrub up to 8 ft. high, the young wood covered with fine pinnate ; the common stalk (or rachis) is spine-tipped, i to 3 ins. long,remaining after the leaflets have fallen, and developing ultimately into a woodythorn ; stipules in the form of spines \ in. long. Leaflets ten to fourteen oneach leaf, oblong or oblanceolate ; :\ to i in. long, -^\y to A in. wide ; coveredwhen young with flattened silky hairs. Flowers yellow, about \ in.
Trees and shrubs, hardy in the British isles . ne, and can be easily propagated by late summer cuttings. CARAGANA 289 C. BREVISPINA, Royle. A deciduous shrub up to 8 ft. high, the young wood covered with fine pinnate ; the common stalk (or rachis) is spine-tipped, i to 3 ins. long,remaining after the leaflets have fallen, and developing ultimately into a woodythorn ; stipules in the form of spines \ in. long. Leaflets ten to fourteen oneach leaf, oblong or oblanceolate ; :\ to i in. long, -^\y to A in. wide ; coveredwhen young with flattened silky hairs. Flowers yellow, about \ in. long,produced three or four together at the end of a common stalk i to 2 ins. A in. long, bell-shaped, with five narrow, fine-pointed teeth, downy. Pod2 ins. long, smooth outside, woolly within. Native of the north-western Himalaya at 5000 to 9000 ft. elevation, distin-guished from arborescens by the long, fine-pointed spines developed from theleaf-stalks, and by the several (not solitary) flowers on each stalk. It flowersin Caraoana aurantiaca. C. Chamlagu, Lamarck. A deciduous shrub up to 4 ft. high, with angular branches, and of rounded,bushy habit. Leaves composed of two unequal pairs of leaflets, the terminalpair the largest ; the common stalk is spine-tipped, and remains after theleaflets have fallen, but it does not develop into the formidable thorn seen inC. brevispina or Gerardiana ; stipules \ to .1 in. long, becoming stiff very variable in size ; in young plants as much as \\ ins. long and\ in. wide, usually obovate, but on old flowering shoots ] to 4 in. long ;smooth and lustrous, rounded at the apex. Flower i] ins. long, solitary onits slender stalk \ to ^ ins. long, reddish yellow. Calyx bell-shaped, nearly\ in. long, with five short, triangular teeth. Pod \\ ins. long, slender, smooth. Native of N. China; introduced in 1773. ^^ ^ distinct for its large, darkgreen, glossy, membranous leaflets, larger in a young state than those o
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