374 SALISBURIA. 



Seed-leaves in twos. 



Named in honour of R. A. Salisbury, F.R.S., an eminent 

 English botanist. 



A large deciduous tree, native of China and Japan. 



Salisburia adiantifolia, Smith, the Maiden-hair Tree. 



Syn. Ginkgo biloba, LinncBus. 

 Salisburia Ginkgo, Salisbury. 



Leaves deciduous, broadly fan-shaped, flat, leathery, thick 

 rounded on the upper margins, and the same colour and texture 

 on both sides, closely clustered on the short spur-like branch- 

 lets, but distant and alternate on the young shoots, fan-like, 

 wedge-shaped at the base, somewhat triangular, and with from 

 two to four lobes, more or less deeply divided, the lobes again 

 irregularly toothed or jagged, and somewhat undulated at the 

 edges, with numerous minute parallel ribs, elevated on both 

 sides, and tapering to the base, where they are united with the 

 foot-stalk, which is as long as the blade of the leaf, of a fine 

 light or yellowish-green, pliant, smooth, and glossy. Branches 

 alternate, mostly ascending, or horizontal, but sometimes de- 

 clining on the lower part of the tree, lateral ones spreading 

 branchlets very short, spur-like, and producing each year a 

 cluster of from three to five leaves on the top of each, very 

 closely placed, somewhat vertical. The male catkins appear 

 with the leaves in May, on the wood of the preceding year, or 

 on old spurs, are without foot-stalks, of a yellow colour, and 

 one inch and a half long. The female flowers are produced in 

 (more or less) clusters, on very long foot-stalks, each in part 

 enclosed in small cups at the base, formed by the enlargement 

 of the peduncle. Fruit globular or ovate, one inch in diameter, 

 drupaceous, or fleshy outside, on very long, slender foot-stalks, 

 each containing a single bony nut or seed of a whitish colour. 

 Seeds somewhat globular, tolerably large, covered with a hard, 

 bony shell, smooth externally, and tapering to both ends, and 

 enveloped in a light green, or yellowish fleshy pulp, covered 



