Dr. Smith'* Charafiers of the new Genus Salijbur'ia. 331 



branacea; alterum putamini adherens, alterum femini; 

 albumen virefcente-album, femini conforme, amvgdalinum ; 

 embryo luteus, bafi albuminis infertus, rectus, bicotyledoneus. 



This is a large not inelegant tree, cultivated in China and Japan. 

 The nuts are eatable, and i'weet, but not produced till the tree 

 arrives at a con fider able age ; nor has it been long enough in Eng- 

 land to attain a iufficient degree of maturity. The male flowers how- 

 ever have been oblerved for thefe two years pad:, early in the fpring,. 

 in Kew gardens. The tree itfelf has long been admired for its harid- 

 fome fan-fhaped leaves, cloven about half way from their fumtnit ;. 

 but they can by no means be termed biloba, or two-lobcd, as that 

 denomination requires the fegments fhould be rounded. Thefe 

 leaves are alfo irregularly notched like thole of the Zamije, thick- 

 ened at the margin, fmooth, flriated on each fide with numerous 

 parallel nerves. 



The genus is named in honour of Richard Anthony Salifbyry, Efq. 

 FR.S* and F.L.S. of whole acutenefs and indefatigable zeal in the 

 fervice of botany no teftimony is necefTary in this fociety, nor in 

 any place which his writings have reached. 



Sahjburia fhould be placed in the Linnaean fyftem between g*uer-, 

 cus and Juglans. In that of M. de Juflieu it belongs to the fifth- 

 order of his 15th clafs, after laxus, though it is not very nearly 

 allied to any genus whatever. I have preferred aditmtifoBa for a 

 fpecifrc name, becaufe biloba is not correct, and adiantifolia has not 

 only been uled long ago by Kaempfer and Thunbcrg, but is pecu- 

 liarly appofite in this cafe; my friend whole name I wiih the plant 

 in queftion to perpetuate, having diftinguifhed himfelf by the ap- 

 plication of fuch comparative fpecific names, and preferring them 

 to all others. 



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