LXXIII. i?ALSAMA N CE^E I LIQUIDA'MBAR. 



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prickly catkins which contain the seeds are hard, and not readily broken with 

 the hand ; but, by exposure to the sun or to fire heat, they crack and open, 

 and the seeds may then be easily shaken out. They may be sown and treated 

 like seeds of the pine and fir tribe ; but, unlike them, they lie a year in the 

 ground before coming up, Seedlings generally attain the height of from 5 in. 

 to 8 in. the first year, with numerous fibrous roots. They may either be 

 transplanted that year or the next, and may afterwards undergo the usual 

 routine culture in nursery lines, till they are wanted for final transplanting. 



^ 2. L. JMBE'RBE Willd. The beardless, or Oriental, Liquidambar. 



Identification. Willd. Sp. PL, 4. p. 475. ; Ait. Hort. Kew., 3. p. 365. ; N. Du Ham., 2. p. 44. 

 Synonymcs. L. orientalis Mill. Diet. No. 2. ; ?Platanus orientalis Pocock. Itin. 2. t. S9. ; L. iin- 



berbis Smith in liees's Cycl. 

 Engravings. ? Pocock. Itin., 2. t. 89. ; and our fig. 1739. 



Spec. Char., fyc. Leaves palmate-lobed, with the sinuses at the base of the 



veins ; smooth. (Willd.) A low stunted tree, or large bush, of slow 



growth, with numerous small brancheikcrowded together into an irregular 



head. Levant. Height 10 ft. to 20. ft. Introduced in 1759. Flowers ?. 



The young shoots are pliant and reddish ; the leaves are much like those of 



the preceding species, but smaller, and more resembling those of the common 



maple; because they are bluntly notched, while the others are acutely 



1739. L. imbdrbe. 



L. iraMrbe. 1740. L. Stjraciflua. 



so. (See fig. 1740., in which a is a leaf of L. Styraciflua, and b one of L. im- 

 berbe, both to the same scale.) The veins of the leaves, in this species, are 

 naked, while in the other they are hairy at the base of the midrib. The 

 flowers are disposed like those in the preceding species, and the fruit is 

 smaller, and more sparingly furnished with prickly points. The rate of 

 growth, in the climate of London, is slow, being not more than 5 or 6 feet 

 in ten years. It will grow in a soil rather drier than suits the preceding 

 species; though Du Hamel was informed that in its native country it grows in 

 moist soil, by water, like the 

 common willow. 



L. Alting\Q. Blume Bjdr. 10. 

 p. 527. (Fl. Jav., t. 1. ; and 

 our fig. 1741.) Aitingja ex- 

 celsa Noronha in Batav. Ver- 

 hand. 5. p. 1., Pers. Syn. 2. 

 p. 579., Sprcng. Syst. Veg. 3. 

 p. 888., Lambert's Genus 

 Pinus, ] . t. 39, 40. ; Lignum 

 papuanum Rumph. Herbar. 

 Amboyn. 2. p. 57. ; Alting's 

 Liquidambar. Leaves ovate- 

 oblong, acuminate, serrated, 

 glabrous. (Blurne.) A tree, 

 with a spreading head, from 

 150 ft. to 200 ft. high. It is 



3 o 3 



1741. L. Alting/a 



