460 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 



Seeds subulate, heaped at the ancles of the cells ; each furnished w'.tli a loose 

 membranous aril. Albumen fleshy. Differs from il/yrtaceae in the arillate 

 albuminous seed, and in the toothed dotless leaves. {Doit's Mill.) 



Leaves simple, opposite, exstipulate, deciduous ; toothed, serrated, or 

 sometimes entire. Flowers large, white, showy. Shrubs, natives of Europe, 

 Asia, and America. Three genera are hardy in British gardens, which are 

 thus contradistinguished: 



Philade'lphus. Calyx 4 5-parted. Petals 4 5. Stamens 20 40. Styles 



4 3. Capsule 4 3-celled. 

 Deu'tz/j. Calyx 3 6-cleft. Petals 3 6. Stamens 10 12. Filaments 



tricuspidate. Styles 3 4. Capsule 3 4-celled. 

 Decuma'ria. Calyx 71 0-toothed. Petals 7 10. Stamens 21 30. Style 



1. Capsule 7 10-celled. 



Genus I. 



PHILADE'LPHUS L. The Philadelphus, or Mock Orange. 



Lin. Si/st. Icosandria Monogjnia. 



Identification. Lin. Gen., No. 614. ; Dec. Prod., 3. p. 205. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 807. 



Synotiymcs. Syringa Tourn. Inst. t. 389., not of Lin. ; Philadelphus, Fr. ; Pfeifenstrauch (Pipe 



Shrub), Ger. ; Filadelpho, Ital. ; Pipe Privet, Gerard; the Syringa of the gardens. 

 Derivation. Philadelphus is a name used by Athenaeus for a tree which cannot now be identified : 



Bauhin applied it to this genus. Instead of the common trivial name Syringa, applied to this 



genus in gardens, as its English name, we have substituted its generic name, Philadelphus; 



Syringa being the generic name of the lilac. I 



Gen. Char. Calyx tube obovate, turbinate ; limb 4 3-parted. Petals 4 5. \ 

 Stamens 20 40, free, shorter than the petals. Styles 4 3, sometimes 

 connected, and sometimes more or less distinct. Stigmas 4 3, obloni; or 

 linear, usually distinct, rarely joined. Capsule 4 3-celied, many-seeded. 

 Seeds scobiform, enclosed in a membranous arillus, which is fringed at one i 

 end. (Don's Mill) ' I 



Leaves simple, opposite, exstipulate, deciduous ; oval, acuminate, serrated j 

 or entire. Floiuers white, usually sweet-scented, disposed in cor} mbose | 

 cymes, or somewhat panicled on the extremities of the lateral shoots, rarely 

 axillary and bracteate. 



Deciduous shrubs, natives of Europe, North America, and Asia; cuhi-' 

 vated for their very showy white flowers; most of which have a strong scent, 

 resembling, at a distance, that of orange flowers, but, when near, disagreealil\ ' 

 powerful. The species are in a state of utter confusion : there are probably! 

 only three; one a native of the South of Europe, or possibly of some other: 

 country ; one of North America ; and one, P. tomentosus, of Nepal. All^ 

 the kinds are of the easiest culture in any tolerably dry soil ; and they are allj 

 propagated by layers, or by suckers or cuttings. 



i. Stems stiff and strai(jht. Flowers in Racemes. i 



at 1. P. coRONA^Rius L. The garland Pliiladelphus, or 71/ocA- O/wzge". I 



Identification. Lin. Sp., G71. ; Schrad. Diss. ; Dec. Prod., 3. p. 20.5. ; Don's Mill, 2. p. 807. , 



Synnnymes. Syringa suaveolens Mcench Mct/t. 678. ; Wohlriechender, Pfeifenstraudi, Ger. ; Fioi| 



angiolo, Itai. j 



Engravings. Bot. Mag., t. 391. ; Schkuhr Handb., 1. 121. ; Lam. 111., t. 420. ; and our fig. 822. I 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves ovate, acuminate, serrately denticulate, 3-nerve(l| 

 rather glabrous, but hairy upon the veins beneath ; inflorescence racemose; 

 Flowers sweet-scented. Lobes of the calyx acuminate. Styles distincj 



