298 SALISBURIA ; OR 



Gen. SALISBURIA. Smith. The Maiden-hair or 

 Ginkgo Tree. 



Flowers, dicccious, or male and female on different plants ; 

 the males in spikes, axillary, and without footstalks ; the females 

 in terminal clusters, on long petioles. 



Fruity drupaceous, or covered with a fleshy pulp, and smooth 

 externally, mostly single from abortion, and enclosed at the base 

 in a small fleshy cup. 



Seeds, solitary in each fruit, and covered with a smooth, hard, 

 bony shell. 



Leaves, fan-shaped, on long footstalks, lobed, and jagged on 

 the outer margins, and covered on both sides with minute fan- 

 shaped, straight nerves. 



Seed-leaves, in twos. 



Named in honour of H. A. Salisbury, F.R.S., an eminent 

 English botanist. 



A large deciduous tree, native of China and Japan. 



Salisburia adiantifolia, Smith, the Maiden-hair Tree. 

 Syn. Ginkgo biloba, Linnceus. 



Leaves, deciduous, broadly fan-shaped, flat, lea:thery, thick, 

 rounded on the upper margins, and the same colour and texture 

 on both sides, closely clustered on the short spur-like branch- 

 lets, but distant and alternate on the young shoots, fan-like, 

 wedge-shaped at the base, somewhat triangular, and with from 

 two to four lobes, more or less deeply divided, the lobes again 

 irregularly toothed or jagged, and somewhat undulated at the 

 edges, with numerous minute parallel ribs, elevated on both 

 sides, and tapering to the base, where they are united with the 

 footstalk, which is as long as the blade of the leaf, of a fine light 

 or yellowish green, pliant, smooth, and glossy. Branches, 

 alternate, mostly ascending, or horizontal, but sometimes de- 

 clining on the lower part of the tree, lateral ones spreading ; 

 branchlets, very short, spur-like, and producing each year a 



