CHAP. LXXV. OLEA CEA. PHILLY’REA. 1203 
As the seeds of the privet will keep several years, it is tobe hoped that the above species will, at 
no distant period, be introduced through the exertions of Dr. Wallich and other botanists of the East. 
Some plants in the arboretum of Messrs. Loddiges, lately raised from seeds received from Kamaon, 
in the Himalayas, appear to belong to this genus. 
Genus II. 
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PHILLY’REA Tourn. Tue Puiiyrea. Lin. Syst. Didndria Monogynia. 
Identification. Dioscor.; Tourn. Inst., 367.; Lin. Gen., No. 19. ; Waill. Acad. Scien., p. 197. t. 13. 
f, 35—37.; Juss. Gen., 106.; Gaertn. Fruct., 2. p. 11. t.92.; Vent. Mal., 2. p. 313.; Lam. IIL, 1. t.8.; 
Lindl. Nat. Syst. Bot., p. 508. ; Don’s Mill, 4. p. 45. 
Synonymes. _Filaria, Fr. ; Steinlinde, Ger. — p 
Derivation. From phullon, a leaf ; or from Philyra, the mother of Chiron, who was changed intoa tree. 
Gen. Char.,§c. Calyx small, tubular, 4-toothed, permanent. Corolla short, cam- 
panulate, rotate, 4-cleft, deciduous. Stamens a little exserted, with short 
filaments. Style simple. Stigma thickish. Drupe globose, containing a 2- 
celled nut; one of the cells usually abortive. Seed solitary in each cell. 
Albumen rather farinaceous or fleshy. (Don’s Mill., iv. p. 45.)—Leaves oppo- 
site, racemes axillary. Flowers greenish white. Drupes black, globose. 
Evergreen shrubs, or low trees; natives of the south of Europe, and of 
some parts of Western Asia. In British gardens, where they have been in 
cultivation for nearly three centuries, they are all most desirable evergreen 
shrubs, on account of their shining dark green leaves, and the fragrance of 
their numerous white flowers, which are propagated by cuttings or layers ; 
and will grow in any common garden soil. The different sorts described as 
species are, probably, only varieties, originated at a time when the phillyrea 
was the principal evergreen in British nurseries. At the present day, 
one half of these varieties are only to be found in botanic gardens, 
because there is no demand for them in the nurseries. We think there 
should be only one specific name, which may be that of P. oppositifolia, 
under which all the other sorts might be arranged as varieties and sub- 
varieties. We have not, however, ventured to adopt this name, in con- 
formity with our principle, of giving no new names whatever ; but we have 
adopted the names P. angustifolia, P. média, and P. latifolia, as botanical 
species, believing these forms to be most distinct, and most common in a 
wild state. By general observers, the phillyrea is frequently confounded 
with the alaternus; but the species of that genus have their leaves placed 
alternately on their branches, whereas in the phillyrea they are opposite. 
The alaternus has, also, 5 stamens to each flower; while the phillyrea has 
only 2. Gerard mentions that the phillyrea grows wild about Ascalon; 
that it was brought to England from Narbonne and Montpelier, in France; 
and that he planted several sorts in the Earl of Essex’s garden, at Barn 
Elms, near London; adding, “ I have them growing in my garden likewise.” 
(See p. 38. and p.39.) Price of plants, in the London nurseries, 5/. per 
hundred, or 1s. 6d. each; at Bollwyller and New York they are green- 
house plants. It was formerly, like the alaternus, which, as we have before 
observed (p. 531.), was often confounded with the phillyrea, in much re- 
pute for covering naked walls, and clipping into figures of balls, men, 
animals, &c. The largest phillyrea hedge in England is said to be at 
Brampton Park, near Huntingdon, the seat of Lady Olivia B. Sparrow. 
# 1. P. ancustiro‘L1A L. The narrow-leaved Phillyrea. — 
Identification. Lin. Sp.,1. p. 10.; Vahl Enum., 1, p. 36.; Don’s Mill. 4. p.45.; Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836. 
Synonymes. P. obliqua Tenore Syil., p.9.; P. media Tenore Fl. Neap., 3. p. 6. 
Engravings. Lam. Ul., 8. 3.; and our fig. 1025. 
Spec. Char., $c. Leaves linear-lanceolate, quite entire. Branches beset with 
elevated dots. Leaves obsoletely veined. (Don’s Mill., iv. p.45.) A 
shrub, from 8 ft. to 10 ft. high; a native of Italy and Spain. It was intro- 
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