2014 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART IIT. 
¥ x 3. C. (B.) orrenta‘tis Lam. The Oriental Hornbeam. 
Identification. Lam, Encyc., 1. p. 700. ; Willd. Sp. Pl., 4. p. 468. ; N. Du Ham., 2. p. 199. 
eeonarnse. C. duinénsis Scop. Carn., t. 60. 
get Scop. Carn., t.60.; Dend. Brit., t. 98.5 and our 
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Spec. Char., §c. Bracteas of the fruit ovate, 
unequal at the base, undivided, somewhat 
angular, unequally serrated. (Willd.) | A 
low tree or shrub, growing to the height 
of 12ft.; a native of Asia Minor and the 
Levant. Introduced in 1739. The Eastern 
hornbeam is a dwarf tree, rarely rising 
above 10 ft. or 12ft. in height. As it 
shoots out into numerous widely spreading, 
horizontal, irregular branches, it cannot be 
readily trained up with a straight clear 
trunk, The leaves are much smaller than 
those of the common hornbeam, and the 
branches grow closer together ; so that it is 
even still better adapted for forming a 
clipped hedge than that species. It was 
introduced by Miller, in 1739; but, though 
it is very hardy, and easily propagated by 
layers, it has never ee much cultivated 
in our nurseries. here are plants at | e 
Messrs. Loddiges’s. ‘ a Ne é 7 
on nets» or ae piaated ae iy 1a fe high, in’ Mavaria; st Mhaniclt ay eta 
garden, 14 years planted, itis 15ft. high. In Italy, at Monza, 24 years old, it is 26 ft. high, di 
of the trunk 9 in., and of the head 20 ft. Plants, in the London Series ae Qs. 6d. ce — 
App. i. Species or Varieties of Carpinus not yet introduced into 
European Gardens. 
Cérpinus (B.) Carpinizza Hort. Fl. Aust., 2., p- 626. Leaves crenately serrated; scales of the 
strobiles revolute, 3-cleft ; the middle segment the longest, and quite entire. A native of the woods 
of Transylvania. The Transylvanians distinguished this sort from C. Bétulus, and call it Carpinizza. 
C. viminea Lindl., Wall. PI. As. Rar., t. 106., 
Royle Illust., p. 341., and our fig. 1938., has 
the leaves ovate-lanceolate, much acuminated, 
doubly serrated; petioles and branchlets gla- 
brous; bracteas fruit-bearing, ovate-oblong, 
laciniate at the base, somewhat entire at the 
apex, bluntish. (Lindl. MSS.) A native of 
the mountains of Nepal, in Sirmore_and 
Kamaon ; and, according to Royle, on Mus- 
souree, at the height of 6500 ft. above the level 
of the sea; flowering and fruiting from Janu- 
ary to April. “This fine tree is very like the 
common alder. Its wood is considered dur- 
able, and is used for ordinary building purposes 
by the natives of Nepal. The slender pendu- 
lous branches are frequently attacked by a sort 
of coccus, which produces numerous elevated 
tubercles, or warts. The structure of the nut 
resembles that of C. Bétulus, as described and 
figured by Gartner, except in the following 
respect :—The cavity is filled with what ap- 
pears to me an entire and homogeneous, fleshy, 
almost colourless substance, exceedingly like a 
perisperm ; in which are suspended, towards 
the apex of the seed, two minute embryones. 
It is possible, that, notwithstanding the most 
careful and repeated examination, I may have 
mistaken the cotyledons of the ripe seed for a perisperm ; but I have invariably seen two minute 
embryones lodged within the upper end of the fleshy substance which fills the nut.” (Wall. Pl. As. 
Rar., t. 106.) . From the elevation at which this tree grows, it will probably be found hardy in 
British gardens, 
C. faginea Lindl., Wall. Pl. As. Rar., 2. p.5., has the leaves ovate-oblong, acute, sharply serrated, 
and glabrous; petioles and branchlets downy; bracteas fruit-bearing, somewhat rhomboid, with 
large teeth, acute, reticulated. It is nearly allied to €. orientalis, but differs in the form and margin 
of the leaf, and in the bracteas. (Wall. Pl. As. Rar., 2. p. 5.) 
