1270 
dicellate. 
about equal in length to the limb. Branches angular. 
& 2. Z. (g.) Ba’RBaRUM ZL. The 
Identification. Lin. Sp., 277.; Willd. Sp., 4 
Synonymes. L. halimifdlium Mill. Dict., No. 
Engravings. Wats. Dend. Brit., t.9.; and 
Spec. Char.,§c. Branches depend- 
Corolla funnel-shaped. Stamens exserted, 
ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART Ill. 
shrub, with long slender shoots, and prone to throw 
up innumerable suckers; a native of the south of 
Europe, where it grows to the height of from 10 ft. 
to 12 ft.; flowering from May till August. It was 
introduced in 1730, and is common in British gardens ; 
where it ‘s valuable for covering naked walls, as it 
grows with extreme rapidity, and flowers and fruits 
freely, in almost any soil or situation. Established 
plants, in good soil, will make shoots 10 ft. or 12 ft. 
in length in one season; and the plant, when trained 
against a house or high wall, will reach the height of 
30 it. or 40 ft., as may be seen in some courts in 
Paris. Trained to a strong iron rod, to the height 
of 20 ft. or 30 ft., and then allowed to spread over an 
umbrella head, it would make a splendid bower. Its 
shoots would hang down to the ground, and form a 
complete screen on every side, ornamented from top 
to bottom with ripe fruit, which is large, and bright 
scarlet or yellow; with unripe fruit, which is of a 
lurid purple; or with blossoms, which are purple 
and white. Some idea of the quantity of ripe and 
unripe fruit, and of blossoms, which may be found on 
a shoot at one time, may be formed from fig. 1108., 
which is only a portion of a shoot, the upper part of _ 
which (not exhibited in the figure) contained two or 
three dozen of fruit, all ripe at once. If it were re- 
quired to open the sides of a bower covered with 
this plant, the shoots could be tied together so as 
to form columns, at regular distances all round: but 
they must be untied in an hour or two afterwards, 
to prevent the shoots in the interior of the column 
from being heated so as to cause them to drop their 
leaves and fruit. Price of plants, in the London nur- 
series, from Gd. to 1s. each; at Bollwyller, 30 cents ; 
and at New York, 373 cents. 
Varieties. There is a variety with yellow fruit, and 
another with the fruit roundish; and, in our opinion, 
L. barbarum, chinénse, ruthénicum, Shawi, and Tre- 
widnum, all which we have seen in Loddiges’s arbo- 
retum; and, probably, other sorts which we have not 
seen, are nothing more than variations of the same 
form. 
Barbary Box Thorn. 
p. 1059., exclusive of the synonymes of Shaw 
and Lam.; Don’s Mill., 4. p. 458.; Lodd. 
Cat., ed. 1836. 
6.; ZL. barbarum « vulgare Azt. Hort. Kew., 
1. p. 257. Schkuhr Handb., 1. p. 147. t. 46., 
Hayne Term. Bot., t. 10. f. 5., Du Ham. 
Arb., 1, p. 306. t. 121. f. 4., Mich. Gen., t. 
105. f.1.; the Duke of Argyll’s Tea Tree. 
our jig. 1109. 
ent. Buds spiny. Leaves lan- 
ceolate, flat, glabrous, acute. 
Flowers twin, extra-axillary, pe- 
