560 ARBORETUM AND FKUTICETUM. PART III. 



Spec. Char , !fC. Leaf lanceolate, toothed, scarcely so long as tlie raceme. Stamens 10. (Dec. Prod., 

 i\ p. 74.) A shrub, a native of the Island of Owtivhee. Jd.) Introduced in 1795. The plant in the 

 Horticultural Society's Garden was placed against the wall in IS'iS. It is probable that plant* ot 

 this species are extant in many old collections in conservatories. 



App. i. Other Species ()f Diwa/tSi. 



There is a plant belonging to this genus in the Horticultural Society's Garden, which was placed 

 against a wall there in 1831, but which has not yet flowered. It seems somewhat different in 

 foliage from the preceding sorts, and may be a variety. The others we consider as nothing more 

 than varieties, unless we except 1). latifblia. 



App. I. Oiher Species of Anacardidcea, half-hardy^ or conjectured 



to he so. 



Sabia parv{flura Wall, and S. campanullUa Wall, are climbing shrubs, natires of Nepal, and 

 included in our list, p. 174., aa likely to prove hardy when once introduced. In Don's Miller (ii. 

 p. 69.), they are very properly markeil as requiring the green-house ; and we should probably not have 

 included them among the half-hardy species, had we not had the aid of Mr. Royle's opinion, as stated 

 in p. 173. 



it Schintis 'MiiW'i L. (DuJi^s Mill.y ii. p. 76. ; Lnm. 

 III., t. 8-2-2. ; and our Jig. 234-.) is a tleciduou s 

 shrub or low tree, a native of Brazil and Peru, 

 where it j;ro%vs to the height of 20 ft. The leaves 

 are impari-pinnate, with lanceolate serrated leaflets. 

 The flowers are small, and of a yellowish green ; 

 and they are succeeded by berries about as large 

 as a pea, of a singularly beautiful rose colour, and 

 highly polished. This species was introduced in 

 1597, and, till lately, was kept in green-houses ; 

 but a plant in the garden of the Lomlon Horticul- 

 tural Society has stood out several years in the 

 open border, without any protection whatever. 

 It well deserves a place against a conservative wall, not only on account of 

 the beauty of its foliage and of its berries, but from the interest attached to it, 

 from the usefulness of its products in its native country, were it is called the 

 Peruvian mastich tree. The Peruvians are reported to make a vinous liquor 

 and a sort of vinegar from its berries; and, from the resinous gum which exudes 

 from its stem, they prepare mastich. The fresh leaves exhibit the same 

 phenomenon, when inmiersed in water, as those of Duvaua (see p. 558.), 

 and, probably, other tcrebinthinate genera. The leaves, the bark, and other 

 parts of the plant, when bruised, emit a terebinthinate odour. There are two 

 plants in the garden of the London Horticultural Society, one of which, in 

 1834, was 3 ft. high, after having been 2 years planted ; and the second, 

 which differs in its foliage from the other, was 3 ft. high, after having been 

 planted 3 years. The conunon name in gardens is S. Mo/le ; but the proper 

 specific name is Midli, which is the Peruvian name of the tree. 



S. M. 2 Are'ira Lin. Spec, 1467., Don's Mill., 2 p. 77., is a variety with the leaflets almost entire. 

 S. Huygan Mol. and S. virgdta .Sweet are species from Chili and Lima, probably as hardy as 

 & MiUU. 



Triceros (from Ireis, three, and kcras, a horn; because the berry is three-horned) cochinchirn'nsis 

 Lour. {Dec. Prod., 2. p. 89., and Don's Mill., 2. p. 77.; is a tree with impari-pinnate leaves, a 

 nativeof Cochin-China, on the mountains, where it grows to the height of 2.5 fl. It would forma 

 most desirable acquisition to British gardens, as there can be little doubtof its proving quite hardy. 



Helerod^ndron aleafhlium Desf [Dim's Mill., '2 p.78.) is an evergreen shrub from New Holland, 

 with the appearance of Cne6rum triciircum. 



Styloplusium spathulatnm Desf [Dun's Mill., 2. p.78.) is also a native of New Holland. 



Cnedrum tricdccum L. :,Lam. 111., t 27.) is a native of Spain and the south of France, in dry 

 and gravelly places. It has been an inhabitant of our green-houses since 1793; and, on dry shel- 

 tered rockwork, it will stand the open air with little or no protection; producing its yellow flowert 

 from April to September, and ripening its brownish red .^-seeded fruits, which resemble in form 

 those of Euphorbia iathyris, and remain on all the winter. The plant is evergreen, and grows 

 to the height of from 1 ft. to 2 ft. A specimen of this species in our garden at Bayswater, planted 

 at the foot of a wall, and protected with a glass rase, but without any artificial heat, has stood for 

 the last six years; and is now ^ April 2-3. 183(5) 18 inches high, and covered with fruit and flowers ; 

 contrasting strongly with CoroniUa glauca, planted in the same glass case, and beautifully in flower 

 at the same time. 



Cne'orum pulveruUntum ij a native of TeneriflTe, and probably ai hardy as the other. 



