ARBORETUM NOTES. 21 
CALYCAN PHAGE. 
CALYCANTHUS FLORIDUS. 
Loudon, v. 2, 936. 
The largest plant of this species at Barton (in ;aycanthus 
the American garden, pl. 1826 ?), is at least eight 
feet high—I think more; but it does not form 
a ‘‘dense’”’ bush, but a very loose and thin one. 
A marked character of the growth of this plant is 
that the smaller and younger branches go off at a 
very large angle, almost a right angle from the 
older ones; and very often when a branch has 
terminated in a flower, two younger branches 
spring from immediately beneath it, and thus, 
when the flower (which with us 1s always abortive), 
has fallen, the older branch has the appearance 
of forking into two branchlets, which diverge at 
a very wide angle. This gives an irregular, open 
and straggling character to the ramification of 
the shrub. The Carolina Allspice flowers plen- 
tifully every year with us, but ripens no fruit. 
The colour of the flowers is a rich dark brown-red, 
or chocolate colour. They are coloured of too 
light a red in plate 104 of Smith & Abbot's Lepi- 
dopt of Georgia, which is otherwise a very good 
representation of the plant. 
Catesby’s figure (Carolina, v. 1. pl. 46), 1s 
very indifferent. That in the Botanical Magazine, 
v. 14, t. 503, very good. 
The scent of the flower is not unlike that of 
