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ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 



Leaves simple, opposite, exstipulate, sub-evergreen : entire. Flowers liirge, 

 white. A large shrub or low tree. Himalayas. Culture as in Cornus. 



" 1. B. fragi'fera Lindl. The Strawberry-bearing Benthamia. 



Identification. Hort. Trans., 2cl series, ]. p. 458.; Lindl. in Bot. Ree., t. 1579. 



Synonymes. C. capitata Wall, in Kox.b. Fl. Ind. 1. p. 434., Don's Mill. 3. p. 399. ; Chung-wa, m 



Nepal ; nhumowro, in Serampore, 

 Engravings. Bot. Keg., t. 1579.'; Hort. Trans., 2d series, I. t. 17. ; and our fig. 924. 



Spec. Char., ^c. Branches spreading, smooth. 

 Leaves lanceolate, acuminated at both ends, on 

 short petioles, rather rough with small ad- 

 pressed down. Flowers sessile, densely aggre- 

 gate, forming a round head girded by a 4-leaved 

 scabrous involucrum. (Dons Mill.) A large 

 sub-evergreen shrub or low tree. Nepal, in 

 Gossainthan. Height 10 ft. to 15. ft. Intro- 

 duced in 1823. Flowers large, yellowish white ; 

 June. Fruit large, about the size of that of the 

 common arbutus, reddish ; ripe in October ; 

 yellowish white within, not unpleasant to eat 

 Young shoots whitish green. 



Rather tender in the climate of London, though 

 it forms a fine evergreen in some parts of Cornwall : perhaps it might be ren- 

 dered hardier by grafting it on Cornus sanguinea. Readily propagated either 

 from seeds or cuttings, and of easy culture in loamy soil, kept moist. 



Benthdima japonica is figured by Sieboldt (t. 16.), and is probably hardy. 



924. B. fragifera. 



Order XXXIX. LORANTHAXE^. 



Ord. Char. Calyx calyculate, entire or lobed. Petals 4 8, distinct or co- 

 hering ; aestivation valvate. Stamens 4 8, opposite the petals, or more or 

 less adnate to them. Style absent or present. Stigma capitate. Berry 

 1-celled, 1-seeded, crowned by the calyx. Albumen fleshy. Flowers gene- 

 rally unisexual. The habit, and the stamens being opposite the petals, 

 distinguish this from Caprifoliacege and Cornaceae. (G. Don.) 



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

 whitish, or purplish. Shrubs, parasitical or terrestrial. Europe and Japan. 



The hardy ligneous plants are included in the genera Tiscum, Loranthus, 

 and Aucuba, 



Fi'scuM L. Flowers dioecious or monoecious. Margin of the calyx ob- 

 solete. Petals usually 4, connected at the base in the male flowers, but free 

 in the female. Berry globular, viscid, of 1 cell. 



Lora'nthus L. Flowers dioecious or hermaphrodite. Margin of calyx 

 entire. Petals 5 6, linear, reflexed. 



Au'cUBA Thunb. Flowers dioecious. Calyx 5-toothed. Petals 4, ovate 

 lanceolate. Fruit fleshy, 1-seeded. 



Genus I. 



rrSCUM L. The Mistletoe. Lin. Syst. Monoe'cia, or Dioe'cia, 



Tetrandria. 

 Identification. Tourn. Inst., p. 609. ; Dec. Prod., 4. p. 277. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 40'2 



