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producing shoots 3ft., 4ft., or 3ft. in length, when young; and it is readily 

 propagated by cuttings, or by layers. The latter mode is generally adopted in 

 British nurseries. Plants, in London, are 2s. 6d. each. In the case of the 

 aristotelia and of all other shrubs or trees that are rather tender, it is very 

 desirable, in cold situations north of London more especially, to have reserve 

 plants, against a wall, or in pots, from which cuttings may be taken when 

 wanted, to supply any deaths which may occur in the open garden. 



Genus II. 



AZA^Ri4 R. et P. The Azara. Liu. Si/st. Polyandria Monogynia, 



Identification. R. et P. FL Per. et Chii. Prod., 1. p. 76. t. 36. ; Syst.p. 137.; D. Don, in Edin. N. P. 



Journ. Jan. 1831 ; Don's Mill., 1. n. 2K7., 2. p. 55. 

 Derivation. In honour of Joseph liicholas Azara, a Spanish promoter of science, and of botany in 



particular. (Don's Mil/., i. i). 297.) 



Description, Sfc. The species are leafy evergreen shrubs or trees, with alternate, simple, stalked, 

 stii>ulate leaves, which are bitter to the taste ; and flowers disposed in corymbs or spikes, fragrant. 



« 1. A. denta'ta K. et P. The toot\ie.d-leaved Azara. 



Identification. R. et P. Fl. Per. et Chil. Syst., 1. p. 1.38. ; Fl. Per., 5. 



t. 465. flg. a ; Dec. Prod., 1. p. 262. ; Don's Mill., 1. p. 237., 2. 



p. 55, 56. 

 Engravings. R. et P. Fl. Per., 5. t. 465. fig. a ; Bot Reg., t. 1788. ; 



and our fig. 220. 



Spec. Char., S;c. Leaves ovate, serrated, scabrous, tomentose be- 

 neath. Stipules leafy, one large, the other small. Corymbs ses- 

 sile, few- flowered. Calyx 5— 7-partcd, spreading, with the seg- 

 ments somewhat imbricate in tcstivation. Stamens numerous, 

 many of them sterile. {Don's Mill., ii. p. :iS,56.) An evergreen 

 shrub or low tree, growing to the height of 12 fl. in its native 

 country (Chili), in groves about Concepcion, where it is calle<l 

 Corcolen. It was introduci'd into England in 18;30, or before, and 

 flowered against a wall in the garden of the London Horticul- 



' tural Society in 1835. The following particulars respecting it 

 are from the Bot. Reg., t 1788. Branches pubescent. Leaves 

 oblong, from 1 in. to 2 in. long, crenately sawed, deep, bright 



■ green, remarkably glossy. Flowers small, devoid of corolla, yellow 

 in the anthers, which are protruded a little Ijeyond the calyx, dis- 

 posed in corymbose clusters that are shorter than the leaves, fra- 

 grant A. dentAta, in England, nailed to the south face of a wall, 

 and protected from wet in winter, forms a very h.indsome ever- 

 green bush. No drought seems to affect it ; for, after nearly two months of the hottest and driest 

 weather known. in England, its leaves were perfectly fresh and green. [Bot. lieg., Sept. 1835.) 



m 2. A. integrifo^lia R. et P. The entire-leaved Azara. 



Identification. R. et P. Svist Fl. Per. et Chil., 1. p. l.SS. ; Fl. Per. 5. t. 466. f. a ; Dec. Prod., I. 

 p. 262. ; Don's Mill., 1. p. 297., 2. p. 56. ; Card. Mag., 10. p. 285. 



Engraving. R. et P. Flor. Per., 5. t. 466. 



Spec. Char., ^c. Leaves obovate or oblong, entire, smooth. Stipules equal, permanent Flowers 

 spiked. Calyx with a connivent -i-cleft limb, furnished with scales on the inside, valvate in sesti- 

 vation. Stamens not numerous, all fertile, disposed in fascicles opposite the lobes of the calyx. 

 (Don's Mill., ii. p. 56.) An evergreen shrub, a native of Chili, growing to about 12 fl. high, and 

 found in groves about Concepcion, where it, as well as A. dentJlta, is called Corcolen. Mr. Knight 

 of the Exotic Nursery, Chelsea, raised, in 1832, plants of this species from seeds obtained of 

 Mr. Cuming, who had imported them from their native country. It is probably only a variety of 

 the preceding. A. serrata R. et P., another species, is described in Dec. Prod, and Don's Mill., 

 2. p. 56. This is a native of the same locality as the others, and is also a shrub 12 ft. high. All 

 three are, probably, varieties of the same species. 



App. i. Other hardy or half-hardy ligneous Species of Homalinacece. 



Blackw^lha. nepale'nsis Dec. is a Nepal shrub, with ovate leaves and whitish flowers. — AstrAnthus 

 cochinchin^nsis Lour. [Don's Mill., 2. p.57.) is a tree with ovate, serrated, ianuginous leaves, and 

 white flowers in long spikes, introduced in 1823. — Nelll'ia tkyrsifiiira D. Don, and A', rubiftdra D. Don 

 [Don'sMill., 2. p. 57.), are hardy Nepal shrubs, with the habit of Spirs'a ; but they have not yet 

 been introduced. The last generic name was given by Professor Don, in honour of his friend 

 Patrick Neill, Esq., LL.D. F.RS.E. and F.L.S., Secretary of the Wernerian and Horticultural 

 Societies of Edinburgh ; a gentleman who has been a great encouragerof botany and gardening for 

 nvmy years, and to whose zeal and activity, and the universal esteem in which he is held in his 

 native country, the Caledonian Horticultural Society owes its existence, and, in a great measure, its 

 present prosperous state. 



