Tab. 5744. 



PAEROTIA Persica. 



Persian ParroUa. 



Wat. Ord. Hamamelldeje.— Pentandeia DlOYFIA. 



Gen. Cliar. Calyx carnpanulatus, basi ovario adbrerens, lobis 5-7 coriaceis 

 persistentibus. Petala 0. Stamina 5-7, perigyna, calycis lobis opposita, 

 filameutis filiforniibus ; antberae basifixse, connective) mutieo v. mucronato. 

 Ovarium semi-inferum, 2-loculare; styli 2, stigmatibus simplicibus ; ovula 

 in loculis solitaria. Capsula lignosa, semisupera, 2-valvis, valvis 2-partibi- 

 libus, endocarpio corneo soluto 2-valvi. Semina oblonga, testa atra nitida. 

 — Arbores et frutices, Persiae et Kasbmirse incolae. Folia oblonga v. orbi- 

 cularis, decidua, crenata. Stipulse amplrz, deciduce. Flores pracoces, con- 

 ferti, subcapitati, bractcis amplis membranaceis involucrati, tomentosi. 



Pakkotia Persica ; foliis breviter petiolatis obovato-oblongis basi rotun- 

 datis obtusis ultra mediain grosse crenato-serratis, antheris linearibus 

 mucronatis. 



Paeeotia Persica. C. A. Meyer, Index Gam. p. 47. Ledebour, PI. Boss, 

 v. 2. p. 377. 



Hamamelts Persica. DC. Prodr. v. 4. p. 268. 



The tree now figured for the first time is one of the rarest 

 in cultivation. It is a native of the Trans- Caucasian pro- 

 vinces of Russia, and of Northern Persia. Two small trees 

 of it exist in the Royal Gardens, which were received as pot- 

 plants from St. Petersburg some twenty-five to thirty years 

 ago ; one of these is trained against a west wall, the other, 

 which is nine feet high, stands in the open ground, and the 

 latter flowered abundantly in March of the present year. 

 The great beauty of the plant consists in the magnificent co- 

 louring of the foliage in late autumn, when the leaves usually 

 turn of a brilliant orange and golden-yellow and scarlet, and 

 hang upon the plant on the wall till late m winter ; on the 

 plant in the open ground they are shed much sooner. During 

 the present year, however, this colouring has been very dnll, 

 a peculiarity shared by the Scarlet Oaks, American Maples, 

 tiquidambar and Salisburias at Kew, all of which have 



DEOEMBEB 1st, 1808. 



