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ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 



Nepal, on the mountain Sheopur. 

 in December and January. 



Flowering in September, and bearing fruit 



ORDER LXXI. 



ORD. CHAR. Flowers unisexual ; those of the two sexes upon distinct 

 plants. Male. Flowers in pendulous catkin-like racemes, within connate 

 bracteas. Calyx 4-leaved. Stamens^. Female? Flowers in pendulous 

 catkin-like racemes, within connate bracteas. Calyx connate with the ovary, 

 2-toothed. Ovary 1-celled. Styles 2, setaceous. Ovules 2, pendulous, 

 with funiculi as long as themselves. Fruit a berried pericarp, not opening, 

 containing 2 seeds. Embryo very minute, in the base of a great mass of 

 fleshy albumen. (G. Don.) 



Leaves simple, opposite, exstipulate, evergreen ; serrated or entire. 

 Flowers in long pendulous catkins. Wood without distinct concentric 

 zones. Shrubs evergreen ; natives of California and Mexico. 



GENUS I. 



GA'RRYJ Doug. THE GARRYA. Lin. Syst. DioeVia Tetrandria. 



Identification. Lindl. in Hot. Reg., t. 1686. 



Derivation. Named by Mr. Douglas in compliment to Nicholas Garry, Esq., Secretary to the Hud- 



son's Bay Company, to whose kindness and assistance he was much indebted during his travels in 



North-west America. 



Gen. Char. See Ord. Char. 



Only two species have been introduced, which are very ornamental, grow 

 in loamy soil, and are propagated by layers. 



* 1. G. ELLIPTIC A Doug. The elliptic-leaved Garrya. 



Identification. Bot. Reg., 1. 1686. 



Engravings. Bot. Reg., 1. 1686. ; and our fig. 1730. 



Spec. Char. fyc. Branches, when young, pubescent and 



purplish ; when older, smooth and greyish. Leaves 



opposite, exstipulate, wavy, on short footstalks, oblong- 



acute, leathery, evergreen ; dark green and shining 



above ; hoary beneath, with simple, twisted, interwoven 



hairs. (Lindl. ) An evergreen shrub. North Carolina. 



Height 3 ft. to 4 ft. in America ; in England, 8 ft. to 



10ft. Introduced in 1828. Flowers greenish white, 

 . or yellowish ; November to February. 



Only the male plant is in the country. When in 

 flower this shrub has a most striking and graceful appear- 

 ance, from its slender pendulous catkins, many of which 

 are from 8 in. to 1 ft. in length. It was at first grown in 

 peat, but appears to prefer a loamy soil. It is readily 

 increased by layers, and by cuttings in sand under a 

 hand-glass. In British gardens it is about as hardy as 

 the common laurustinus. 



1730 G elKptica . 



2. G. LAURIFO'LIA Hartw. The Laurel-leaved 'Garrya. 



Identification. Bentham, Plantae Hartwegianas, p. 50. ; Card. Mag., vol. xvi. p. 637. 

 Engraving. Our fig. 1731. from a specimen in the Lambertian herbarium. 



Spec. Char., $c. Leaves elliptic oblong, very entire, or minutely dentate. 



