PLATE XL 



1. BUPLEURUM FRUTICOSUM. 



SHRUBBY HARE'S-EAR. 



THIS genus comprises plants of the evergreen shrubby kind. 

 Hare's Ear, or ./Ethiopian Hartwort. 



It belongs to the class and order Pentandria Digynia, and ranks 

 in the natural order of Umbellate. 



The characters are : that the calyx is an universal umbel, with 

 fewer than ten rays; partial with scarcely ten rays, erect-expanding: 

 involucre universal many-leaved; partial five-leaved, larger: leaflets 

 expanding, ovate, acute: the perianthium proper obscure: the co- 

 rolla is universal uniform: floscules all fertile: proper, of five, in- 

 voluted, entire, very short petals: the stamina consist of five simple 

 filaments: the anthers roundish: the pistillum is an inferior germ: 

 the styles two, reflected, and small: the stigmas very small : there is 

 no pericarpium: fruit roundish, compressed, striated, splitting in 

 two: the seeds two, ovate-oblong, convex and striated on one side, 

 flat on the other. 



The species for the purpose of ornamental culture are: l.B.fru- 

 ticosum, Shrubby Hare's Ear, or ^Ethiopian Hartwort; 2. JB. difforme, 

 Various-leaved Hare's Ear; 3. B.frutescens, Grass-leaved Shrubby 

 Hare's Ear. 



The first is an evergreen shrub rising to the height of five or six 

 feet, and dividing into many branches so as to form a large regular 

 bush. The. stem is covered with a purplish bark; the branches are 

 well furnished with oblong, smooth, shining, stiff leaves, of a sea- 

 green colour, placed alternately, four inches long, and one broad in 

 the middle; at the ends of these the flowers are produced in umbels: 



