1026 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART IIL. 
Genus II. 
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AU’CUBA Thunb. Tue Avucusa. Lin. Syst. Dice‘cia Tetrandria. 
Identification. Thunb. Fl. Jap., p. 4.; Dec. Prod., 4. p. 274. ; Don’s Mill., 3. p. 433. 
Synonymes. Aukuba Kempf. Ameen., 5. p. 775. ; Eubasis Salish Prod., p. 68. 
Description, §c. An evergreen shrub or tree; a native of Japan. Branches 
dichotomous or verticillate,in the manner of those of Loranthus and Viscum. 
The male blossom unknown. Only the female state of this plant is in British 
gardens. 
# J. A. sapo’nica Thunb. The Japan Aucuba. 
Identification. Thunb. FI. Jap., p. 64.; Dec. Prod., 4. p. 274. ; Don’s Mill., 3. 433. 
Synonymes. Ejvbasis dichétomus Salish. Prod., p. 68.; spotted-leaved Laurel, Japan Laurel. 
Engravings. Banks ; Icon. Kempf., t. 6.; Thunb. Icon. Fl. Jap., t. 12. and 13.; Bot. Mag., t. 1197. 
Spec. Char., &c. Native of Japan, where it is common both in a wild and 
cultivated state, producing its red berries in March. The aucuba, in British 
gardens, is a well-known laurel-like evergreen shrub, having the leaves 
mottled with yellow; but in Japan the leaves are said, by Thunberg, to be 
sometimes green. According to Kempfer, it forms, in its native country, 
a tree, with the fruit a red oblong drupe, like a laurel berry, with a white 
sweetish pulp; and a kernel with a bitter taste. It was introduced in 1783, 
and, at first, treated like a stove plant, as was customary, in those days, 
with plants from Japan and China; it was afterwards found to stand in the 
green-house, and, in a short time, in the open air. It is now considered as 
hardy as, or hardier than, the common laurel; and, what is a very valuable 
property in England, it will endure coal smoke better than almost any 
other evergreen. It is readily propagated by cuttings; and grows freely in 
any soil tolerably dry, advancing steadily by shoots of from 9 in. to | ft. 
long every season. 
App. I. Loranthacee not introduced. 
L. europe~us. (Lin. Sp., 1672.; Jacq. Fl. Austr., t. 30.; Dec. Prod., 4. p. 671.; Don’s Mili., 3. 
p. 409.; Schkuhr Handb., t. 94.; Plenck Icon., t. 248.) The European Loranthus. Plant gla- 
brous, much branched. Branches terete. Leaves opposite, petiolate, oval-oblong, obtuse, some- 
what attenuated at the base. Racemes terminal, simple. Flowers dicecious, of 6 petals, Anthers 
adnate in the male flowers. (Don’s Miil., iii. p.409.) A parasitical shrub, with the habit of Viscum 
album, and, like it, having greenish flowers, and yellowish berries. It isa native of Austria, Hun- 
gary, Italy, and Upper Siberia, where it grows on the oak,the sweet chestnut, and other trees, as the 
mistletoe does in England. It has not yet been introduced into Britain, though it might easily be 
so, by procuring a box of the berries from Vienna, and treating them as directed for those of the 
mistletoe, p. 1023. : 
L. odoradtus Wall. is a native of Nepal, with leaves from 4—6in. long, and many-flowered spikes, 
of small, white, very sweet-scented flowers. 
L. Lambertianus Schultes is anative of Nepal, with the habit of L. europz'us ; and is, probably, the 
same species. 
Various other species are described by botanists as natives of different parts of Asia. Royle re- 
marks that the genus LorAnthus “ is found in considerable numbers on trees, in every part of the 
plains of India; not less than 90 being found in that country, in the Malayan peninsula; though L. 
bicolor is the most common species. Some few ascend the mountains; and several occur in Nepal. 
Of these, L. pulveruléntus and L. vestitus are found as high as Mussouree; and L, ligustrinus and 
L. cordifolius lower down on the mountain side.”’ (Royle Iilust., p. 235.) 
CHAP. LXIII. 
OF THE HARDY LIGNEOUS PLANTS OF THE ORDER CAPRIFOLIA‘CER. 
Tuis order includes several genera of hardy ligneous plants, chiefly shrubs. 
They are commonly arranged in two sections, Sambucez and Lonicéree ; and 
the following distinctive characters of the section and genera, taken from Don’s 
Miller, will give an idea of the characteristics of the order : — 
