SCUTELLARIA MACRANTHA. 



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Hazel and Oak, and are borne on distinct plants from those producing the male, 

 catkins shewn in our engraving ; whilst the Cupulifera have the male and female 

 amenta on the same plant, though in separate bunches. 



The Garrya elliptica may, therefore, be briefly described as an evergreen shrub, 

 with opposite wavy leaves without stipules ; flowers arranged in pendulous racemes 

 appearing from the axils of connate bracts. Male flowers composed of four leaves 

 or sepals ; stamens four, not elastic as in the nettle tribe, which the order greatly 

 resembles. Female flowers, with a two-toothed superior calyx ; ovary one-celled ; 

 styles, two, bristly ; ovules, two, pendulous, hanging by stalks or funiculi as long as 

 themselves. Fruit berried, not opening when ripe, two-seeded. Embryo very 

 minute, in the base of fleshy albumen. (The Cupulifera have no albumen.) 



The catkins are produced in September or October ; they are often of considerable 

 length, and have a silky appearance, which adds considerably to their beauty. The 

 plant producing the female flowers has not, we think, been yet introduced ; the 

 only mode of increasing that we possess is, therefore, by cuttings and layers, which 

 require the same treatment as those of most evergreen plants. Three additional 

 species have been recently added to the genus— laurifolia and macrophylla, from 

 North America, and Mc Fadyana, from Jamaica. They are all handsome hardy 

 evergreens, well deserving cultivation in the shrubbery; and, although only 

 recently introduced, they may be procured at a moderate price. All of them suc- 

 ceed best in peat soil. 



The genus was named by Douglas in compliment to Mr. Garry, one of the 

 officials of the Hudson's Bay Company, from whom he received much kindness 

 whilst engaged in his Botanical researches. 



SCUTELLARIA MACRANTHA. 



Large-Jloivered Skull-cap. 

 Unman Class— Didvnamia. Order — Gymnosfeema. Natural Order — Labiate. 



Though less showy perhaps than some other of the Lipworts, many of the Skull- 

 caps are very ornamental plants, and none more 60 than the Scutellaria macrantha. 

 It is a native of Eastern Asia, and appears to be widely spread, extending, 

 according to Sir William Hooker, to the great wall of China, where it was detected 

 by Sir George Staunton. As might have been anticipated it proves to be perfectly 



