CHAP. CI. ULMA'CER. 1371 
Spec. Char., §c. Inhabit and leaves, somewhat resembling the common privet 
(Ligistrum vulgire L.). Leaves with very short petioles, and disks that are 
lanceolate-oblong, entire, somewhat membranous. Fruit rather shortly 
ovate. (Michx. Fl. Bor. Amer.) A native of North America, in thickets 
about rivers, in the countries of the Illinois, Tennessee, &c.; flowering in 
July and August. stoi Introduced into England in 1812, by Lyon; 
and there are plants in the arboretum of Messrs. Loddiges, where it grows 
freely in common garden soil, forming a shrub, apparently a fit associate 
for Ligastrum, Fontanésia, and Prinos. 
& 2. B. (? xz.) acumina’ta Willd, The acuminate-/eaved Borya. 
Identification. Willd. Sp. P1., 4. p. 711.; Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 2., vol. 5. 
Synonymes. Adélia acuminata Michx. Fl. Bor. Amer,., 2. p. 225. t.48.; 
Bigelovia acuminata Smith in Hees's Cyclop. Addenda, Lodd. Cat., 
The Sern Uncertain which is in England. 
Engravings. Michx. Fl. Bor. Amer., 2. t. 28.; and our fig. 1229. 
Spec, Char., §c. Leaves membranous, lanceolate in 
almost a rhombic manner; but most tapered to the 
outward end; 14 in. long, serrulate.—Male flowers 
several together in small sessile tufts, encompassed 
with several ovate bracteas. — Female flowers 
stalked, very small. Fruit pendulous, elliptic-ob- 
long, nearly lin. long before it is ripe, tapered to 
the tip in a beak-like manner. — It appears that the 
taper lateral branches form something like thorns. 
(Michx, and Smith.) Indigenous to the banks of 
rivers in Carolina and Georgia. Introduced into 
England in 1812; but the plants in the arboretum 
of Messrs. Loddiges have not yet flowered. The 
only difference which we can observe between 
B. acuminata and B. /igistrina is, that the former 
has the leaves of a paler green. 1229 
# 3. B. (z.) poruto'sa Willd. The pore-like-dotted-leaved Borya. 
Identification. Willd. Sp. Pl., 4. p.711.; Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 2., vol. 5. 
Synonymes. Adélia poruldsa Micha. Fl. Bor. Amer., 2. p.224.; Bigelvvéa poruldsa Smith in Reevs’s 
Cyclop., Addenda; ? B. ovata Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836. 
The Sexes. Uncertain which is in England. 
pee Char, §¢ Leaves coriaceous, sessile, lanceolately ovate, but with a 
blunt point, entire; the lateral edges revolute; under surface rather rusty, 
and punctured with little holes. (Michx. Fl. Bor. Amer.) It is indigenous 
to the coasts of Georgia and Florida. Introduced into England in 1806. 
The plants in the collection of Messrs. Loddiges differ from B. /igistrina, 
chiefly in the leaves being shorter, 
# 4, B. pisticnopny’LLa Nuit, The two-rowed-leaved Borya. 
Identification. Nutt. Gen. N. Amer. PL, 2. p. 232. 
Spec. Char., §c. A shrub, 12 ft. to 16 ft. high. Leaves in two rows, subsessile, lanceolate, acute, entire 
rough at the edge, membranous. Branchlets very slender. Scales of the bud pungently acute, 
A “confluent in the leaves.” Indigenous to the banks of French Broad River, East Tennessee. 
Nuttall, who had seen it alive.) Mr. George Don thinks that this plant has been introduced ; but 
we have never seen it. 5 
CHAP. CI. 
OF THE HARDY LIGNEOUS PLANTS OF THE ORDER ULMA‘CER, 
Tuey are included in three genera, which have the following names and 
characters : — 
U‘imus L. Flowers, in most species, protruded earlier than the shoots 
and leaves of the year; disposed in groups, each group lateral, and proceeding 
