282 LXVI. HAMAMELACES. HAMAMELIS. 
in gardens. Height 4—5f. Leaves very large. Sterile flowers with roundish 
sepals, dull white, becoming reddish, very showy. f 
3. H. HORTENSIS. Changeable Hydrangea.—Lvs. elliptical, narrowed at each 
end, dentate-serrate, strongly veined, smooth ; cymes radiant; fls. mostly sterile. 
—Probably native of China, where it has long been cultivated. Stems 1—3f 
high. Leaves large. Barren flowers very numerous and showy, at first green, 
passing successively through straw-color, sulphur-yellow, white, purple, and 
pink. The perfect flowers are central and much smaller. It thrives in large 
pots of peat mixed with loam, abundantly watered. The flowers endure sever- 
al months. t 
SusorpeER 4_PHILADELPHE &£. 
Petals convolute in estivation. Capsule 3—4-celled, loculicidal. Shrubs. 
9. PHILADELPHUS. 
Name from Philadelphus, king of Egypt: 
Calyx 4—5-parted, half-superior, persistent; corolla 4—5-petaled ; 
style 4-cleft; stamens 20—40, shorter than the petals; capsule 4- 
celled, 4-valved, with loculicidal dehiscence; seeds many, arilled.— 
Handsome flowering shrubs. Lvs, opposite, exstupulate. 
1. P. cranpirLérvus. Willd. is inodorus. Michz.) Large-flowered Syringa.— 
Ins. ovate, acuminate, denticulate, 3-veined, axils of the veins hairy; stig. 4, 
linear ; sty. undivided——A very showy shrub, 6f high, native at the South, cul- 
tivated in shrubberies. Branches smooth, long and slender. Flowers large, in 
a terminal umbel of 2 or 3, white, nearly inodorous. Calyx divisions conspicu- 
ously acuminate, and much longer than the tube. Jn.—The upper leaves are 
often entire and quite narrow. Tf 
2. P. coronarius. False Syringa:—Lvs. ovate, subdentate, smooth; sty. dis- 
tinct.—Native of 8. Europe. A handsome shrub, often cultivated in our shrub- 
beries. The flowers are numerous, white, showy, resembling those of the 
orange both in form and fragrance, but are more powerful in the latter respect. 
It grows 5—8f high, with opposite, smooth, ovate, stalked leaves, and opposite, 
reddish twigs bearing leafy clusters of flowers. ¢ 
Orver LXVI. HAMAMELACEZ. 
Shrubs. Lvs. alternate, dentate, the veinlets running direct from the mid-vein to the margin. — de- 
Cal. adherent to the ovary, 4-cleft. [ciduous. 
Cor.—Petals 4, linear. : : , 
Sta. 8, those opposite the petals barren (or many and all fertile, with no petals.) 
Ova. 2-celled, ovules solitary. 
Fr.—Capsule coriaceous, the summit free from the calyx, 2-beaked, 2-celled. 
Genera 10, species 15, natives of N. America and Japan. No remarkable properties have been dis- 
covered. 
HAMAMELIS. 
Gr. dua, with, pndov, fruit; i. e. flowers and fruit together on the tree. 
Calyx 4-leaved or cleft, with an involucel of 2—3 bracts at base ; 
petals 4, very long, linear; sterile stamens scale-like, opposite the 
etals, alternating with the 4 fertile ones; capsule nut-like, 2-celled, 
2-beaked.—Shrubs or smail trees. 
H. Viremniina. Witch Hazel. 
ws. oval or obovate, acuminate, crenate-dentate, obliquely cordate at base, 
on short petioles ; fls. sessile, 3—4 together in an involucrate, axillary, subses- 
sile glomerule—U. 8. and Can. A large shrub, consisting of several crooked, 
branching trunks from the same root, as large as the arm, and 10—12f high. 
Leaves nearly smooth, 3—5’ long, 3 as wide. Petioles 3/long. Calyx downy. 
Petals yellow, curled or twisted, 3’ long. Capsule woody, containing 2 nuts.— 
This curious shrub is not unfrequent in our forests, and amidst the reigning 
