Crossword-Solution: SKIMMIA 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 15

Oaks, laurels, maples, birch, chesnut, hydrangea, a species of fig (which is found on the very summit), and three Chinese and Japanese genera, are the principal features of the forest; the common bushes being _Aucuba, Skimmia,_ and the curious _Helwingia,_ which bears little clusters of flowers on the centre of the leaf, like butcher's-broom.

Next in abundance to these were shrubs of _Skimmia Laureola,_* [This plant has been lately introduced into English gardens, from the north-west Himalaya, and is greatly admired for its aromatic, evergreen foliage, and clusters of scarlet berries.

CHAPTER VII Continue the ascent of Tonglo—Trees—Lepcha construction of hut—Simsibong—Climbing-trees—Frogs—Magnolias, etc.—Ticks—Leeches—Cattle, murrain amongst—Summit of Tonglo—Rhododendrons—_Skimmia_—Yew—Rose—Aconite—Bikh poison—English genera of plants—Ascent of tropical orders—Comparison with south temperate zone—Heavy rain—Temperature, etc.—Descent—Simonbong temple—Furniture therein—Praying-cylinder—Thigh-bone trumpet—Morning orisons—Present of Murwa beer, etc.

Oaks, laurels, maples, birch, chesnut, hydrangea, a species of fig (which is found on the very summit), and three Chinese and Japanese genera, are the principal features of the forest; the common bushes being _Aucuba, Skimmia,_ and the curious _Helwingia,_ which bears little clusters of flowers on the centre of the leaf, like butcher’s-broom.

Next in abundance to these were shrubs of _Skimmia Laureola,_[59] _Symplocos,_ and Hydrangea; and there were still a few purple magnolias, very large _Pyri,_ like mountain ash, and the common English yew, eighteen feet in circumference, the red bark of which is used as a dye, and for staining the foreheads of Brahmins in Nepal.