XLVJ11. OLEA^CEJE : PHlLLY'llEA. 



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1222. L. lucidum. 



1223. L. \. fioribandum. 



1224. L. aalicifolium. 



L. salicifolium. A plant to which this name might be 

 suitable was in the arboretum at Kew from 1823 to the 

 winter of 1837-8, when it was killed; and there are also 

 young plants of it in the Horticultural Society's Garden, 

 of one of which fig. 1224. is a specimen. 



& L. japonicum Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 17. t. L, and our fig. 

 1225.; L. latifolium Vitm. ; is a native of Japan, with oblong- 

 ovate grooved leaves, and white flowers, growing to the 

 height of 6 or 8 feet. L. nepalcnse has oval-lanceolate ser- 

 rated leaves, and is a very distinct species. H. S. 



GENUS II. 



1925. L. japdnicuir,. 



PHILLY'REA Tourn. THE PHILLYREA. Lin. Syst. Diandria Monogynia. 



Identification. Tourn. Inst., 367. ; Lin. Gen., No. 19. ; Don's Mill., 4. p. 45. 



Synonymes. Filaria, Fr. ; Steinlinde, Ger. 



Derivation. From phullon, a leaf ; or from Philyra, the mother of Chiron, who was changed into a tree. 



Gen. Char., fyc. Calyx small, tubular, 4 toothed, permanent. Corolla short, 

 campanulate, rotate, 4-cleft, deciduous. Stamens a little exserted, with short 

 filaments. Style simple. Stigma thickish. Drupe globose, containing a 2- 

 celled nut ; one of the cells usually abortive. Seed solitary in each cell. 

 Albumen rather farinaceous or fleshy. (Don's Mill.} 



Leaves simple, opposite, exstipulate, evergreen ; mostly entire. Flowers 

 in axillary racemes, greenish white. Drupes black, globose. 

 Shrubs or low trees, evergreen ; natives of the South of Europe, and of 

 some parts of Western Asia. In British gardens they have been in cultivation 

 for nearly three centuries, they are all most desirable evergreen shrubs, on ac- 

 count of their shining dark green leaves, and the fragrance of their numerous 

 white flowers. They are propagated by cuttings or layers, and will grow in 

 any common garden soil. When raised from seeds, the berries should be pre- 

 pared in a rot-heap like haws. By general observers, the phillyrea is frequently 

 confounded with the alaternus ; but the species of that genus have their leaves 



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