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‘Licustrum tucipum. Cxinese Privet, 
oR WAX-TREE. 
Class anil, Order. 
Dranpria Monoeynta. 
Generic Character. 
Cal. 4-dentatus. Cor. A-fi d Beane Z * i dae 
| Specific Chgracter and Synonyms. 
lieustrum lucidum; foliis ovato-oblongis acuminatis 
supra lucidis, panicula divaricatissima. Hort. Kew. 
ed. alt. 1. p. 19. Roem. et Sch. 1. p. 17. Poirét 
Encycl. Bot: supple. p. 369. foe ae 
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The Licusrrum lucidum is a very handsome shrub, eight 
or nine feet high, sufficiently hardy to bear our winters 
without protection, at least if planted against a wall, in a 
Warm situation. The branches are covered with a kind of 
corky glands ; the lower leavesare much larger than those 
represented in our figure, ovate-acuminate, or ovate-lanceo- 
» Narrowed at the base, shining on the upper surface © 
and on the under covered with a very minute pubescence, 
invisible to the naked eye, and small dots. The 
flowers are white, ee Aa = and grow at the extremities 
of the branches in very large, mostly trichotomously di- 
Vided panicles. ‘This fine shrub was introduced from China, 
about the year 1794, by the late Sir Josera Banxs, Bart. 
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as 
our gardens, ee 
. lt flowers from July to September. Propagated by cut-— 
tings, From the berries, which have not been produced 
here, a vegetable wax is said to be procu ‘ed in China. 
Our drawing of this plant, of we do not know that 
there exists any published ‘ 
— communicated by 
E, of the Fulham N 
