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29S. Duvatia ovkta. 



Introduced in 1790. Flowers yellowish white ; 

 June and July. Berries black ; ripe n Sept. 



There is an old plant in the Botanic Garden 

 at Kew, and a tree in the Chelsea Botanic Gar- 

 den, which is 12 ft. high, with a trunk 7 in. in 

 circumference. The plant in the Hort. Soc. 

 Garden passed seven winters against a wall with 

 a southern exposure, till the winter of 1837-8, 

 when it was killed down to the ground ; but it 

 has sprung up again vigorously. 



* 5 2. D. OVA TA Lindl. The ovate-leaved Duvaua. 



Identification. Lindl. in Bot. 



Reg., t. 1568. 

 Fngravings. Bot Reg., t. 1568.; 



and our^. 292 



Spec. Char., fyc. Leaves 



ovate, toothed, in most acute at the tip, in some 

 obtuse. Kacemes a little longer than the leaves. 

 Stamens mostly 8. (Lindl.) An evergreen tree ; in 

 British gardens a shrub. Chili, on mountains. Height 

 in the climate of London 6 ft. to 10 ft. against a wall. 

 Introduced in 1825. Flowers yellowish white; June 

 and July. Berries black ; ripe in September. 



Probably a variety of the preceding species. It was 

 wholly uninjured by the winter of 1837-8, in the Hor- 

 ticultural Society's Garden. 



* * 3. D. LATIFO'LIA Gill. The broad-leaved Duvaua. 



Identification. Gillies MSS. ; Lindl. in Bot. Reg., t. 1580. 

 Synonymes. D. dependens <y Hook. Bot. Misc.; Huinghan, Chili. 

 Engravings. Bot. Reg., t. 1580. ; and our fig. 293. 



Spec. Char., Sf-c. Leaves oblong, acute, coarsely 

 toothed, so waved as to seem in some measure 

 plicate. Racemes dense, the length of the leaves. 

 Stamens 8. (Lindl.) An evergreen tree ; in 

 British gardens a shrub. Chili, on mountains. 

 Height Cft. to 12 ft. against a wall. Introduced 

 in 1826. Flowers greenish white ; June and July. 

 Berries black ; ripe in October. 



" Whatever," observes Dr. Lindley, " may be 

 thought " of the distinctness, as species, " of D. 

 ovata and D. dependens, there can be no doubt 

 that D. latifolia is a totally distinct species ; for 

 not only are the leaves, in their outline, surface, 

 and colour, and the whole plant in its habit, very 

 different, but we find it maintain all its peculiarities 

 unchanged when raised from seeds." 



Other Species of JDnvaua. D. dentdta Dec., Schinus dentata Bot. Rep., was 

 introduced in 1795, and is doubtless as hardy as any of the above kinds ; since 

 all of them are safest when planted against a wall. Duvaua sinuata Lindl. 

 appears equally hardy with D. dependens in the Hort. Soc. Garden. It differs 

 from the others in producing the flowers before the leaves, and in being deci- 

 duous. All the species well deserve culture as evergreen bushes, in shrubberies 

 where the soil is dry and sandy, the situation sheltered, and the surface sloping 

 to the south. A concurrence of circumstances of this kind is not unfrequent 

 in country residences, both in England and Scotland ; and two examples which 

 occur to us at the moment we are writing are, Bury Hill in Surrey, and Blair 

 Drummond in Stirlingshire. 



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