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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART 1!I. 



Is. 2. B. Ste'ller/ D. Don. 



ISteller's Brj anthus 

 9'JG 



Idfntificalion. D. Don, 1. c. ; Don's Mill., ;3. p. 833. 

 Synonymes. AndriSmeda Stelleriann Pall. Fl. Ross., p. 58. 



t. 74. f 2. ; Menzids/ii pmpetril^rinis Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept., 



1. p. 265., but not of others. 

 Sngravings. Pall. Fl. Ross., p. 58. t. 74. f.2.; and our fig 996. 



Spi-c. Char., S(C. Branchlets glabrous. Leaves with obsolete 

 crenulatcd edges. Flowers solitary, nearly sessile. Anthers 

 2-horned behind. Style conical. Flowers pale red. ^Don's 

 AfiU.,\\\. p. 83'>.) A trailing shrub, a native of the north- 

 west coast of America, on the Rocky Mountains, and near 

 the month of the Columbia River, and in the Island of 

 Sitcha. This plant. Pallas obsetves, although a specimen is 

 preserved in the herbarium of Steller, has been altogether 

 omitted by the two (imelins ; perhaps because Steller him- 

 self described it imperfectly. In his NiS. he says, " it occurs 

 together with the former ,B. Gm^lini;; its mode of growth, 

 and time and place of Howering, are also much the same, so 

 that before the flowers expand they can scarcely be distinguUhcd from each other." The 6ower8, 

 hiiwever, are diHerent ; being larger, and about half an inch broad; with a monopetalous, white, 

 5-cleft conilla. The fruit resembles that of 13. GmOliiw. It appears to us highly probable from 

 this description, that the two sorts are only difterent states of the same s|)ecies ; but, be tiiis as it 

 may, the plants would not be the less interesting, if introduced into our ccllection.s. We recom. 

 mend such of our readers as live in alpine situations, to direct their attention to the procuring of 

 plants of JJryanthus from their native habitats either in Russia or Korth America. Perhaps they 

 may be procured from the most northern parts of North America ; or by means ofsume of those 

 numerous British travellers who, at present, are to be found in exery part of the globe. 



Clndolhdmnus pyroUrflnrwi Bongard in Mem. Acad. Petersb., 2. p. 155. ; P^rola fruticbsa 

 Eschfchollz; is a much-branched evergreen shrub, a native of the north-west coatt of America, 

 growing to the height of from 4 ft. to G fL 



App. II. Half-hai-dy ligneous Species of Fivicdcece. 



There are no plants. Dr. Lindlcy observes, " more general favourite* among collector ■ than the 

 ipecies of £rici\cea?. It is, however, very remarkable, that, notwith:'tanding the extensive c< mmerce 

 of England, the zeal of her merchants, and the enterprise of individuals, some of the mo.«t m.igni- 

 ficent of these plants are still known to Europeans only from the dried specimens in the herbariums 

 of botanists. We allude to the noble genus IJelariV/, which contains many species more beautiful 

 than even Rhododendron and .\zdlea ; to the Thibaudias, with long tubular crimson blossoms, 

 and to many species of (Jaylussaccm. The finest of these plants inhabit the Cordillera.^ of Peru, in 

 the country of the cinchonas ; and, certainly, if. one half the sum that has been sometimes wasted 

 in ill-considered undertakings were applieil judiciously to an expedition into this region, there 

 wouUl be no rea>onable doubt of success, and the results would be indescribably important." {Bot. 

 Hfg., as quoted in Gard. Mag., xi. p. 523.) 



Genus I. 



ENKIA'NTIIUS Lour. 



TiiL Enki.vntiils. Lin. Si/st. Decamlria Mo- 

 noiivnia. 



Identification. Lour. Cochin., 276. ; Don's Mill , .'J. p. 833. 



Synonyme. Meladbra SaJ. in Hurl. Trans., 2. p. 156. 



Derivation. From egkuos, pregnant, and ant/ios, a flower. The flowers swollen. 



Gen. Char., S(C. Calyx 5-clefl, with coloured bracteas. Corolla campanulatc, with a 5-cleft limb, 

 and with 5 pits at the base of the tube. St.imena 10, inserted in the base of the corolla. Style fili- 

 form. Berry 5.cclled. — Low evergreen shrubs, natives of China, where they are held in high ve- 

 neration by the natives ; in Britain, somewhat difficult of culture. They grow best in sandy loam, 

 mixed with a little peat, with a very moderate degree of heat, rather less than that of a conserva- 

 tory, and placed near the glass. Cuttings of the ripened wood will root in sand under a bell-glass. 

 As they flower from .September to February, and as their flowers, which are of pink mixed with 

 white, are extremely beautiful and .showy, they are valuable ornament* in the winter; but, from 

 their flowers appearing at that sea.son, they arc more fit for a cold-pit or a con.«ervatory, than a 

 conservative wall. Till lately, as far as we have been able to learn, these plants have only been 

 well cultivated and flowered, in England, in the conservatory of W. Wells, Esq., at Redleaf, in 

 Kent. A plant, however, flowered in the spring of 18.'}i'>, at Drayton Green, in the garden of Mrs. 

 Lawrence. They do not succeed well, if disturbed attcr being once planted. 



* 1. E. QuiNQUEFLo^Rus Lour. The five-flowered Enkianthus. 



Identification. Lour. Cochin., p. 276. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 834. 



Si/noni/me. E. reticulatus Lindt. Bot. Re?., t. Sfi.}., Botanist, f. 1. 



£ngraeings. Andr. Rep., t K»2. ; Ker Bot. Keg., t. 201. ; Bot. Mag., t. 1649. ; Lodd. Bot. Cab., 

 1. 1101. ; Lindl. Bot. Reg., t. 883. ; Botanist, t. 1. ; and our figs. 997, 998. 



Spec. Char., S(C. .Stem shrubby. Leaves oval-lanceolate, acuminate somewhat waved on the 

 margins. Flowers 5 — 6 together, at the tops of the branches; generally pink, or with the calyx red, 

 and the corolla nearly^whitc. [Don's Mill., iii. p. 8J4.) A shrub, growiijg to the height of from 3 ft. 



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