936 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PARY III. 
Genus I. 

CALYCA’NTHUS Lindl. Tue Catyca’ntuus, or AMERICAN ALLSPICE. 
Linn. Syst. lcosandria Polygynia. 
Identification. Lindl. in Bot. Reg., t. 404. ; Nees Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. Bonn., 11. p. 107. ; Dec. Prod., 
3. p. 2.; Don’s Mill., 2. p. 652. 
Synonymes. Calycanthi sp. Lin., Lam., Willd.; Biittnéria Du Ham. Arb., 1. p. 114., not of Lin. ; 
Beurréria Ehret. Pict., t. 13.; Bastéria Adans, Fam., 2, p. 294.; Pompadotra Buchoz; Calycante, 
Fr.; Kelch Blume, Ger. 
Derivation. From kalux, a calyx, and anthos, a flower; the calyx is coloured, and resembles a 
corolla. sg pene allspice was given to it by the inhabitants of Carolina, from the strong aromatic 
smell of the bark. 
Description. Deciduous shrubs, natives of North America; propagated, in 
England, by layers. De Candolle states that the removal of the terminal leaf 
bud of a shoot causes the production of two new flower buds ; and that by this 
practice a succession of flowers during the whole summer may be obtained. 
(Dec. Prod., iii. p. 2.) The price of the common kinds, in the London nur- 
series, is 75s. per hundred, or 9d. each; at Bollwyller, 14 franc ; and at New 
York, from 374 cents to half a dollar. 
2 1. C.FLo’ripus L. The flowery Calycanthus, or Carolina Alispice. 
Identification. Lin. Sp., 718.; Nutt. Gen. Amer., 1. p.312.;. Dec. Prod:, 3. p. 2.; Don’s Miil., 2. 
652 
Synonymes. C. stérilis Walt. Car., 151.; sweet-scented Sbrub, in Carolina; common American 
Allspice. 
Engravings. Bot. Mag., t. 503.; Du Ham. Arb., 1. t. 45.; Lam. lh, t. 445. f. L. ; Guimp. Abb. Holz., 
t. 4.3 and our fig. 659. 
Spec. Char., §c. Wood of the trunk, and especially of the root, intensely 
camphor-scented. Branches spreading ; branchlets tomentose. Leaves oval, 
tomentose beneath. Flowers mostly abortive. Fruit top-shaped. A native of 
the shaded banks of rivulets in Carolina. (Dee. Prod., iti. p. 2.) 
Varieties. De Candolle gives two forms of this species. 
& C. f. 1 oblingus, leaves oblong (Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 2., 3. p. 282.); and 
% Cf. 2 ovdtus, leaves roundishly ovate (Ait. H. Kew., ed. 2., 3. p. 282.). 
The following varieties are in Loddiges’s Catalogue for 1836 ; and plants 
of most of them are in their arboretum, and in that of the Horticultural 
Society: — 
C. f. 3 asplenifolius has cut leaves. 
C.f. 4 feraw has fertile flowers. 
C. f. 5 glaicus has leaves somewhat glaucous. 
C. f. 6 inodorus has flowers nearly scentless. 
C.f. 7 longifolius has elongated leaves. 
C. f. 8 variegatus has variegated leaves. 
Description, §c. A shrub, growing to the height of 6 ft. or 8 ft., and form- 
ing a dense orbiculate bush; the shoots covered with brown bark, and the 
leaves opposite on short footstalks. The flowers : 
grow singly on short peduncles at the extre- 
mity of the branches; they have two series of 
narrow thick sepals, which spread open, and 
turn inward at the top, like those of the ane- 
mone or clematis. They are of a dusky purple 
colour, and have a powerful aromatic scent. 
The plant is a native of Carolina, and was in- 
troduced by Mark Catesby in 1726. It was not 
common in British gardens till about 1757; 
when, according to Miller, many plants were 
brought from Carolina, it having been greatly 
increased in the gardens about Charleston. It 
thrives best in a light, rich, sandy soil, kept 

