Z)r . S MI T H V CharaSlers of the new Genus Salljhurta. 331 



branacea; alterura putamini adhasrcns, alterum femini ; 

 albumen virelcente-album, femini conforme, amygdalinum ; 

 tfw^ryo luteiis, bafi albuminis infertus, re«aus, bicotyledoneus. 



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

 The nuts are eatable, and fwect, but not produced till the tree- 

 arrives at a coiifiderable age ; nor has it been long enough in Eng- 

 land to attain a I'uffitient degree of maturity. The male flowers how- 

 ever have been obferved for thefe two years pall, early in the Ipring, 

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

 I'ome fan-ihaped leaves, cloven about half way from their fummit ; 

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

 denomination requires the fegments Ihould be rounded. Thefe 

 leaves are alfo irregularly notched like thofe of the Z^/k;>, thick- 

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

 parallel nerves. 



The genus is named in honour of Richard Anthony Scili/bury, Efq. 

 F.R.S. and F.L.S. of whofe acutenefs and indefatigable zeal in the 

 fervice of botany no teftimony is necefTiiry in this focicty, nor in 

 any place which his writings have reached. 



Siilijburia fhould be placed in the Linnasan fyflem between ^ier- 

 c«j and Juglans. In that of M. de Juffieu it belongs to the fifth 

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

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

 fpecific name, becaufe biloba is not corredt, and adianiifrjUa has not 

 only been ufed long ago by Ka;mpfer and Thunbcrg, but is pecu- 

 liarly appofite in this cafe; my friend whofe name I wilh the plant 

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

 plication of fuch comparative fpecific names, and preferring them 

 to all others., 

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