GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL 3IE3IORAXDA 
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94* Symplocos japoxica. 
lucida, Zuccarinu) 
Candolle 
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evergreen 
slirub, from Japan, belonging to the natural order 
of Sapotads. Flowers in small, pale yellow clusters. 
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Sfandish 
Noble. 
This is said to grow in Japan to the size of the European 
ash-tree, with a close head : or to become a coppice-bush 
20 feet high. The Japanese call it Furoggu Thunberg 
took it for a myrtle f It is much used by the Japanese for 
decorating the shrines of their Idols, for wh'i h its evergreen 
habit renders it suitable. Whether or not it is hardy is 
according to Siebold, it grows naturally in the 
provinces of Japan along with true Laurels, 
I)e CandoUc. {ah 
Candolle ; 
