C 1625 ] 



Mylocaryum ligustrinum. Privet-leaved 

 Mylocaryum, or Buck-Wheat-Tpee. 



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C/a/r and Order. 

 Decandria Monogynia. 



Generic Charatler. 



Cal. 5-partitus : foliolis fuborbiculatis. Petala 5, unguiculata. 

 Stigma capitatum, trigonum, feffile. Cap/. 3-alata, 3-locuIaris. 

 Sem. iblitaria. 



Specific Name and Synonyms. 



MYLOCARYUM ligujlrinum. mild. Emm. p. 454. Pur/h Fl. 



Amer. Sept. p. 302. 

 CLIFTONIA. Herb. Bank/. 

 WALTERIANA carolinien/is. Fra/er's Catal. 



The Buck-Wheat-Tree, which gets this name from the 

 fimilarity of its feed-veffels to thofe of Polygonum Fagopyrum, 

 is an elegant evergreen fhrub, which in its native foil grows to 

 the height of eight feet and upwards. 



It is fo well defcribed by Mr. Pursh, that it is needlefs to 

 repeat a defcription of it here. In one refpecl: only our ob- 

 fervation does not agree with this author, which is that he 

 defcribes the pedicles as having two braftes in the middle, 

 whereas we found only one at the bafe of each. 



Found in Carolina and Georgia, by the late Mr. John 

 Fraser, who was very defirous of dedicating it to his friend, 

 Mr. Thomas Walter, author of the Flora Caroliniana, the 

 accuracy of whofe defcriptive characters we have had frequent 

 opportunities of witneffing. But there being already a Wal- 

 t her 1 a and a Gualtheria, he was driven to the inadmiffible 

 expedient of giving an adjeclive termination to the name. 



As many collectors may have the plant under the appella- 

 tion given to it in Eraser's Catalogue, the quotation of it 



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