1194- ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. FAUT IJI. 



* 4. B. LAXLGiNO^SA Puish. The \voolly-/<?ai'<'d Buiuelia. 



Indentification. Pursh FL Amer. Sept., 1. p. 155. : Don's Mill., 4. p. 30. 



Si/tiomtmes. Sideruxylon lanugin6sumj 3/icAj-. FU Bor. Amcr., 1. p. 123.; S. t^nax Walt. Ft. Car., 



p. 100. 

 Spec. Char., Sfc. Rather spinose. Branchlets spreading, downy. Leaves ovaManceo4ate, glabrous 



above, and woolly beneath, but not silky. Flowers in axillary fascicles ; very nearly allietl to B. 



tOnax, but differs in the leaves being woolly l)cneath, not silky, often obtuse. (Don's ilUl., iv. p. .iO.) 



A small tree, a native of Carolina and Georgia, in humid situations among bushes. It was intro. 

 . duced in ISOti ; but we have not seen the plant. 



2 5. B. oulongifo'lia Nutt. The oh\ox\g-leaved Bumelia. 



Idi-nlification. Nutt. Gen. Amer., 1. p. 1.35. ; Don's Mill., 4. p. 30. 



Spec Char., S(C. Spiny Leaves smooth, oblong, obtuse, deciduous. Flowers conglomerate, nearly 

 si'ssile, very numerous. Scales, or sterile tilaments, tritid. Tree, with numerous twisted branches. 

 Calycine segments ovate, concave. Drupe purple. Wood fetid. {Don's Mill., iv. p. jO.) A tree, a 

 native of North America, on the Mississippi, near the lead mines of St. Louis : it is also abundant 

 as far down the river as Natches, where it grows to the height of 18 ft. or 20 ft ; flowers in July 

 and August. It was introduced in 1818 ; but we have not seen the plant. 



B. salicijiilia Swz., Sideroxylon salicifTilia Lam., y^'chras ^alicifblia /,., is a native of Jamaica 

 and St. Domingo; but there is a tree against a wall in the open air in the Botanic (Jarden at Kcw, 

 which appears to be a ifumMia, which .Mr. Smith, the botanical foreman there, thinks may be of this 

 species. It is at once distinguished from B. /ycioldes, which stands beside it, by its much larger, 

 pale green, and willow-like leaves. 



CHAP. LXXIV. 



OF THE HAUDY LIGNEOUS PLANTS OF THE ORDEK fiBENA'CE.t;. 



Genus I. 



i£l 



/JIOSPY'ROS L. The Date Plum Li?^ Sj/st. Polyganiia DioeVia. 



I.lenlijicalion. Lin. Ocn., No. llfil.; Jug.<. Gen., 156.; (ia?rtn. Fruct, 2. p. 478. t 179.; I>indl. 



Nat. Syst. Bot., 2d edit., p. 227. ; I'r. Kr. Prod., p. 525. ; Don's Mill., 4. p. 38. 

 Syjuynynies. A;'benu8 Conim. ; Giiaiac'ina Tourn., 371. ; Plaqueminier, Fr. ; Dattelpflaume, Gcr. 

 Dcriviition. l)iospuros 'dios, divine, and puros, wheat,) was a name given by the ancients to the 



common groniwell ;7.ilhospi'rmum ofticinfile) Its application to the date plum probably arose from 



confounding the Greek puros, wheat, with the Latin ni/rvs, a jiear tree, to the fruit of which the 



date plum may have l)een thought to bear some resemblance. 



Gcii. Char., S(c. Flowers polygamous. Calyx deeply 4-cleft, sometimes 3- or 6- 

 cleft. Corolla urceolate, 4-cleft ; sometimes :i- or (j-cleft. Male flowers having 

 the stamens inserted by pairs into the base of the corolla, twice the number of 

 its segments, with double or twin filaments, and the rudiment of a pistil. 

 Hermaphrodite flowers having fewer and sterile stamens. Ovarium 8 — 1 Si- 

 celled ; cells 1-seeded. Beny globose, with a spreading calyx which is at 

 length reflexed. Albumen horny. {Don's Mill., iv. p. 38.) Deciduous low 

 trees, with white or pale yellow flowers. Natives of Europe, the north of 

 Africa, Western Asia, the islands of the Indian Archipelago, and North 

 America. The hardy species in cultivation in British gardens belong to 

 the Levant and North America. 



i I. D. Lo^TUs L. The Euro])can Lotos, or common Date Plum. 



Irientificalion Lin. Sp , 1510. ; Willd. Sp., 4. p. 407.; Ger. Emac., 1495. f. 1.; Park. Theatr., 1523. 



f. .3.; Don's Mill., 4. p. ^. 

 Synoni/mes. Pseudolbtus Matth. ; Guaiacina patavlna Tourn. ; Italian Lignum Vitsp, Wood of 



Life, Pockwood, Bastard Menynwood, Gerard; Date of Trebisonde ; Plaqueminier, faux Lotier, 



Fr. ; Italianische D.ittelpflaume, Gcr. 

 Fiigravings. Mill. Icon., t. 116. ; Pall. Fl. Ross., 1. p. 20. L 58. ; Wangh. Amer., 84 t. 28. f. 58. ; 



and the plates in our last Volume. 



Spec. Char., i^c. Leaves oblong, acuminate, downy beneath ; leaf buds hairy 

 inside. Flowers small, reddish white. Fruit size of a cherry, yellow when 

 ripe, sweet with astringency : it is recommended as a cure for diarrhoea. 

 ( ZJom's MU/., iv. p. 38.) A tree, a native of the southern parts of Caucasus, 



