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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART III. 



1963 



1964 



Synonymes. L. orientMls Mill. Diet., No. 1. ; ? Platanus orientilis Pocock. Itin., 2. t. 89. ;L. imb^rbis 



Smith in Rees's Cycl. 

 Engravings. ? Pocock. Itin., 2. t. 89. ; and our fig. 1963. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves palmate-lobed, with the smuses at the base of the 

 veins ; smooth. (W'tlld.) This is a low stunted tree, or large bush, of slow 

 growth, with numerous small branches crowded together into an irregular 

 head. The joung shoots are pliant and reddish ; the leaves are much like 

 those of the preceding species, but smaller, and 

 more like those of the common maple ; because 

 they are bluntly notched, while the others are 

 acutely so. SeeJ%. 1964., in which a is a leaf of 

 L. Styraclflua, and b one of L. imberbe, both to 

 the same scale. The veins of the leaves, in this 

 species, are naked, while in the other they are 

 hairy at the base of the midrib. The flowers are 

 disposed like those in the preceding species, and 

 the fruit is smaller, and more sparingly furnished 

 with prickly points. The rate of growth, in the 

 climate of London, is slow, beuig not more than 

 3 ft. or 6 ft. in ten years ; and the largest tree 

 that we know of in England, which is in the Mile End Nursery, is only 

 lo ft. 6 in., though it must have been planted 50 vears, and probably more 

 The tree is- a native of the Levant ; and was introduced into France, accord 

 ing to Du Hamel, by M. Peyssonel, consul 

 at Smyrna; and from France sent to Eng- 

 land, to Miller, who raised plants of it in the 

 Chelsea Garden in 1759. It has since been 

 cultivated in choice collections ; but, from 

 its only being raised by layers, and not form- 

 ing such a handsome tree, not so generally 

 as the Liquidambar Styraclflua. Wc are 

 not aware that it has ever flowered in Eng- 

 land. It will grow in a soil rather drier than 

 the preceding species will ; though Du Hamel 

 was informed that in its native country it grows in moist soil, by water, like 

 the willow. It is therefore probable, that, if planted in similar soil in 

 England, and in a sheltered warm situation, it woulil attain a nmch greater 

 height than it has hitherto done in this country. Price of plants, in Eng- 

 land, as in the preceding species. It is not in the BoUwyller catalogue, 

 and at New York the price of plants is 1 dollar each. 



Ap|i. i. Species of Liquidambar not yet introduced. 



L. Altlngia Illume Jijdr., 10. p. 527., Fl. Jav., t. 1., and o\xt fig. 19;)j . ; AUingJa exci'lsa Noronha 

 in Batav. rcrhaiui., 5. p. 1., Pers. Si/n., 2. p. 579., Spreng. Syst. Veg., 3. p. SS8., Lambert's Genus 

 Pinus, I. t.S9,iO.; Lignum papu'inum 



Pump/i. Herb. Amb., 2. p. 57. ; Alt'mg's .</&!&». -^ ^\ 



Liquidambar. I^caves ovate-oblong, 

 .icuminate, serrated, glabrous. {Blume.) 

 A tree, witli a spreading head, from 

 l-Wft. to 200 ft. Iiigh ; the trunk straight 

 and thick, especially towards the boU 

 torn, where there are 4 or more deep 

 furrows, seeming as if they had been 

 hollowed out. The bark externally is of 

 a whitish ash colour, even or warty, of a 

 brownish red internally ; the juice acrid 

 and somewhat bitter : when wounded, 

 a honey-like sweetish balsam exudes. 

 Branches alternate, round, and warty ; 

 young ones furrowed, and smooth. 

 Leaves alternate, pctioled, from .3 in. 

 to Sin. long, scarcely 2 in. broad; lea- 

 thery. Petioles from ^in. to above 1 in. 

 in length, weak, roundish, having at 

 the base 2 small, subulate, deciduous 

 stipules. Ca))sules oljcordate, somewhat 

 2-lobod. This immense tree can never 

 escape the eye of the traveller in the 

 forests of the west of Java. It is found 

 very plentifully in the provinces of 

 IJantam and Buitenzorq, at an elevation of from 2000 ft. to .3000 ft. ; but in the east of Java it is 



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