544 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNIOVM. 



& 1. L. FORMO V SA Wall. The beautiful Leycesteria. 



Identification. Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind., 2. p. 182. ; Dec. Prod., 4. p. 338. ; Don's Mill , 3. p. 431. 

 Si/nonyme. HamehVi connata Puerari MSS. 

 Engravings. Plant. As. Rar., 2. t. 120. ; and our fig. 1014. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. As in Gen. Char. A large, rambling, sub-evergreen sbrub. 

 Nepal, on mountains ; between 6000 ft. and 8000 ft. high, among forests 

 of pine and oak. Height in England, against a wall, 6 ft. to 8 ft. Introduced 

 in 1824. Flowers white, with a tinge of purple; August to October. Fruit 

 purple j ripe in October. 



Trained against a wall, this shrub has proved quite hardy, but in our cloudy 

 atmosphere it has rather disappointed expectation in the colour of its bracteas, 

 which are much less brilliant than they appear to be in the Himalayas. Cut- 

 tings or seeds, which are ripened freely, in common soil. 



ORDER XLI. 7ZUBIA v CEj. 



ORD. CfJAR. Calyx with a variable limb. Corolla monopetalous, with a 

 variable limb, but generally 4 5-lobed ; aestivation twisted or valvate. 

 Stamens equal in number to the segments of the corolla, and more or less 

 adnate to its tube. Anthers introrse. Ovarium 2- or many-celled, crowned 

 by the limb of the calyx. Style 1. Stigmas 2. Fruit baccate or capsular. 

 Cells I 2- or many-seeded. Albumen horny and fleshy. (G. Don.} 



Leaves simple, opposite, or 3 in a whorl, stipulate, deciduous. Sti- 

 pules short, distinct, or a little combined. Flowers on peduncles, naked, 

 rising from the axils of the leaves, or from the tops of the branches ; heads 

 globose, in consequence of the flowers being sessile, and seated on a sessile 

 piliferous receptacle. 



This order includes a great number of genera ; but there is only one of 

 these that contains any ligneous species truly hardy in British gardens. 



GENUS I. 



1 



CEPHALA'NTHUS L. THE BUTTON-WOOD. Lin. Syst. Tetrandria 

 Monogynia. 



Identification. Lin. Gen., No. 113. ; Gasrtn. Fruct, 2. t. 86. Lam. 111., t. 59. ; Juss. M?m. Mas., 

 6. p. 402. ; Rich. Diss., with a fig. ; Dec. Prod., 4. p. 538. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 610. : Lodd Cat., ed. 

 1836. 



Syntmymes. Cephalante, Pr. ; Knopflaura Ger. ; Cefalanto, Ital. 



Derivation. From kephale, a head, and anthos, a flower ; in allusion to the flowers being disposed 

 in globular heads. 



Gen. Char. tyc. Calyx with an obversely pyramidal tube, and an angular 

 5-toothed limb. Corolla with a slender tube, and a 4-cleft limb; lobes 

 erectish. Stamens 4, short, inserted in the upper part of the tube, hardly 

 exserted. Style much exserted. Stigma capitate. Fruit inversely pyra- 

 midal, crowned by the limb of the calyx, 2 4-? celled, and separating into 

 2 4 parts ; cells, or parts, 1-seeded, indehiscent, and sometimes empty by 

 abortion. Seeds oblong, terminating in a little callous bladder. (Don's Mill.} 

 A shrub, with terete branches ; native of North America. 

 Leaves and Flowers as in the order. 



& I. C. OCCIDENTALS L. The Western Button-wood. 



Identification. Lin. Sp., 138. ; Dec. Prod., 4. p. 538. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 610. 

 Synonymes. C. oppositifolius Moench Meth. p. 487. ; Swamp Globe Flower, Amer. 

 Engravings. Du Ham. Arb., 1. 1. 54. ; Schmidt Arb., 1. t. 45. ; and our figs. 1015. and 1016. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves opposite, or 3 in a whorl, ovate or oval, acuminated. 



