ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM 

 BRITANNICUM. 



CHAP. CVI. 



OF THE HARDY LIGNEOUS PLANTS OF THE ORDER GARRYA^CE^. 



Ga'rry^ Douglas. Flowers unisexual ; those of the two sexes upon distinct 

 plants. — Male. Flowers in pendulous catkin-like racemes within connate 

 bracteas. Calyx 4-leaved. Stamens 4. — Female ? Flowers in pendulous 

 catkin-like racemes, within connate bracteas. Calyx connate with the 

 ovary, 2-toothed. Ovary 1-celled. Styles 2, setaceous. Ovules 2, pen- 

 dulous, with funiculi as long as themselves. Fruit a berried pericarp, not 

 opening, containing 2 seeds. Embryo very minute, in the base of a great 

 mass of fleshy albumen. — Species, 1. A native of the west side of the 

 dividing mountain range of North America, in temperate latitudes. A 

 shrub. Leaves opposite, without stipules, persistent. Wood without dis- 

 tinct concentric zones, or vasiform tissue (dotted ducts). (Lindlei/'s Nat. 

 St/st. of Botany, p. 173.) 



Genus I. 



GA'RRYj4 Doug. The Garrya. Lin. Syst. Dice'cia Tetrandria. 



Identification. Lindl. in Bot. Reg., t. 1686. 



Derivation. Named by Mr. Douglas in compliment to Nicholas Garry, Esq., Secretary to the Hud- 

 son's Bay Company, to whose kindness and assistance he was much indebted during his travels in 

 North-west America. 



Description, ^c. An evergreen shrub, with thick coriaceous leaves, like 

 some species of evergreen viburnum. 



• 1. G. ELLi'pTiCA Doug. The eWx^Uc-leaved Garrya. 



Identification. Doug. MS. ; Lindl Bot. Reg., t. 1686. 

 Engravings. Bot. Reg., t. 1686.; and ouv jig. 19j1. 



Description, Sfc. A shrub, hitherto seen only from 3 ft. to 4 ft. high, but 

 which will probably grow much higher. Branches, when young, pubescent 

 and purplish ; when older, smooth and greyish. Leaves opposite, exstipu- 

 late, wavy, on short footstalks, oblong-acute, leathery, evergreen ; dark green 

 and shining above; hoary beneath, with simple, twisted, interwoven hairs. 

 {Lindl.) This very handsome true evergreen is a native of North Caro- 

 lina, where it was discovered by Douglas. It was introduced in 1828, and 

 flowered for the first time, in the Chiswick Garden, in October, 1834. The 

 following observations, abridged from the Botanical Register, are b}' Dr. 

 Lindley : — This plant is probaby the greatest botanical curiosity sent home 

 by Douglas; for it appears to represent a natural order altogether distinct 

 from any previously known, and connecting certain well-known natural orders 



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