Tas. 7519. 
LIGUSTRUM CORIACEUM. 
Native of Japan. 
Nat. Ord. OLrEacrzx.—Tribe OLEINES. 
Genus Licustrum, Tourn.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 679.) 
LicgustruM coriaceum; frutex glaberrimus, subtortuosus, ramulis robustis, 
foliis confertis breviter petiolatis crasse coriaceis ovato-rotundatis orbi- 
cularibusve supra convexis saturate viridibus lucidis marginibus anguste 
rubro-purpureis, paniculis breviter pedunculatis, pedunculo rachi ramisque 
validis, floribus in capitula dense congestis brevissime pedicellatis sessili- 
busve, bracteolis minutis subulatis, calycis cupularis limbo truncato, coroll~ 
tubo lobis ovatis obtusis zquilongo, filamentis brevibus, antheris oblongo- 
rotundatis, baccis pisiformibus. Z 
L. coriaceum, Carriere in Rev. Hortic. (1874) p. 418, fig. 56, and (1888) p. 439, 
fig. 101. Fl. & Pomol. (1876) t. 65. Forbes & Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. 
Soe. vol. xxvi. (1889) p. 90. Dippel Handb. Laubholz vol. i, p. 130. 
L, lucidum, var.a coriaceum, Decne in Fl. des Serres, vol. xxii. (Ser. II. vol. 
xii.) (1877) p. 8. 
L. japonice forma difformis, Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. vol. i. p. 313, in - 
nota. 
PL. coriaceum, Nois. Hortul. “ Species ignota,” DO. Prodr. vol. viii. p. 294. 
Iigustrum coriaceum is one of the most distinct-looking 
of the puzzling genus to which it belongs, and though 
reduced by Decaisne to a variety of L. lucidwim (t. 2565) it 
is so different in habit and foliage from that plant, that 
until connecting links between them are found, it may 
well be kept as specifically distinct. Blume with less 
reason regarded it as a deformed condition of L. japonicum, 
a species with spreading pedicels and obovoid berry. 
There are some doubts as to the native country of 
L. coriaceum. It was introduced into England about 1860, 
by Fortune, who, according to Standish (then the recipient 
of Fortune’s plant), sent it from Japan. Probably it was 
procured, like so many other plants sent home by Fortune, 
from a Japanese garden, for there are no indigenous speci- 
mens of it in the Kew Herbarium, except a mere scrap, 
collected by Oldham, and ticketed “ Japan, Korean Archi- 
pelago,”’ and it is not enumerated in Franchet and Savatier’s 
Ferrvary lst, 1897. 
