EVODIA. 503 



This shrub, belonging to the Xatiiral Order Olcacecv, is a native of 

 Japan, China and Cochin-China, where it is much cultivated for 

 the sake of its very sweet-scented flowers called " Kwei Hwa," 

 which are put into teas to flavour them. It forms a shrub of 6 

 to 10 feet in height, with trichotomous branches and branchlets. 

 The leaves are 2 inches long, elliptic-lanceolate, a little serrated, 

 acuminated, shining above and pale beneath. The flowers are 

 yellowish-white, axillary and lateral, aggregate from scaly buds ; 

 pedicels 1-flowered. This shrub is hardy enough to live in the 

 South of England, provided it be planted in a sheltered situation, 

 and on a slope to the south or west; or, to afford protection from 

 north and east w^inds, it may be treated as a wall shrub. Young 

 plants so placed out should have been grown for a considerable 

 time in a cool temperature, and should be not less than 5 to 6 

 years old, and about 3 to 4 feet high. The soil should be light 

 loam, with a dry sub-soil. 



Evodla. 



A genus of small rutaceous trees or shrubs, mostly natives of 

 tropical I^ew Holland and the Indian Archipelago. The leaves 

 are opposite, sometimes simple, sometimes trifoliate on the same 

 branch, full of pellucid dots. The flowers are minute, and 

 disposed in oblong axillary panicles, and the flower-stalks are 

 jointed in the middle. The petals of the flower are four-fold, and 

 shorter than the sepals ; the calyx persistent ; the petals and 

 stamens inserted at the base of a cup-shaped sinuous disc, which 

 encircles the lower part of the four ovaries ; the styles are four, 

 becoming after a time fused into one. The fruit consists of 4 

 capsular, 2-valved, 1 -seeded carpels, but usually fewer than 4 from 

 abortion. The different species are sweet-scented, as implied by 

 the generic name evoSta. 



jE. Hortensis, Forst. Gen., p. 14, t. 7 ; Juss. Mem., xii., p. 485, t. 

 22, ISTo. 28. A shrub of six feet in height, native of the Friendly 

 Islands and the i<"ew Hebrides. Leaves simple or trifoliate ; 

 leaflets lanceolate, pubescent as well as the branches ; panicles 

 longer than the petioles or leaves. Used by the natives for 

 scenting cocoa-nut oil. 



E. drupacea, Labillardiere, Sertum Austro-Caledonicum, p. 73, t. 

 75. A shrub of 6 feet in height, native of New Caledonia. 



