CHAP. LXXV. OLEA CEH. LIGU’STRUM. 1201 
severely cut in, one side at a time, so as to remove the network of shoots, 
which, in consequence of continual clipping, forms on the exterior surface, 
and which, by preventing the air from getting to the main stems, would seri- 
ously injure the plants. 
Accidents, Diseases, §c. The pri- 27a 6 
vet is not subject to be injured by Ce © 
the weather, nor is it liable to the 8 
canker, mildew, or other diseases ; 
but the Sphinx ligdstri, or privet 
hawk moth (fig. 1021.), and the Pha- 
lze‘na syringaria, feed on it in their 
caterpillar state ; as does the Cantharis 
vesicatoria (see p. 1224.), the well- 
known _blister-beetle, | commonly 
called the Spanish fly. The larva of 
the privet hawk-moth is grass green, 
with stripes of white, purple, or flesh 
colour, on the sides; the chrysalis § 


% #2 2. I. spica‘tum Hamilt. The spiked-flowered Privet. 
Identification. amilt. MSS. ex D. Don Prod. Fl. Nep., p. 107.; Don’s Mill., 4. p. 45. 
Synonymes. _L. nepalénse Wall. in Rox. Fl. Ind., 1. p.151., Pl. Rar. Asiat., 3. p. 17. t.231,; L. lan. 
ceolatum Herb. Lamb. ; L. nepalénse var. glabrum Hook. in Bot. Mag., t. 2921. 
Engravings. PI. Asiat. Rar., 3. p. 17. t.231.; Bot. Mag., t. 2921. ; and our fig. 1022. 
Spec. Char., §c.. Leaves elliptic, acute, Be 
hairy beneath, as well as the branchlets. iS 
Flowers crowded, almost sessile, spi- 
cate, disposed in a thyrse, having the 
axis very hairy. Bracteas minute. 
Flowers white. (Don’s Mill., iv. p. 45.) 
A shrub, from 6 ft. to 8 ft. high ; a na-. 
tive of Nepal, on the mountains. It 
was introduced in 1823, and flowers in 
June and July. Though commonly 
treated as a green-house plant, there 
can be little doubt of its being as hardy 
as L. lucidum, the species to be next 
described. It should be grafted on the 
common privet; and, if planted in a 
dry soil and rather sheltered situation aN 
open ‘to the sun, it will be the more +o ¢ 1022 
likely to make no more wood than what it can ripen before winter. 

2% ¢¢ 3. L..u‘cipum Ait. The shining-leaved Privet, or Wax Tree. 
Identification. Ait. Hort. Kew., 1. p. 19.; Don’s Mill., 4. p. 45. ; 
Engravings. Bot. Mag., t. 2565, ; and our jigs. 1023. and 1024. The former, drawn to a scale of 1 in. 
to 4 ft., is a portrait of a tree in the Fulham Nursery, as it appeared in October, 1835. 
Spec. Char., &c. eaves ovate-oblong, acuminated, shining above. Panicles 
thyrsoid, spreading much. Leaves broad. Flowers white. This tree 
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