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ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 



'^ 1. L. roRMo'sA JVa/f. Tlie beautifui Leycesteria. 



Identification. Wall, in Roxb. FI. Ind., 2. p. 182. ; Dec. Prod., 4. p.3J8. Don's Mill , 3. p 451. 

 Si/noni/me. Hameho connata Pucrari MSS. 

 Engravings. Plant. As. Rar., 2. t. 120. ; and ourjSg. 1014, 



Spec. Char., Sfc. As in Gen. Char. A large, rambling, sub-evergreen sliru'j. 

 Nepal, on mountains ; between 6000 ft. and 8000 ft. high, among forests 

 of pine and oak. Height in England, against a wall, 6 ft. to 8 ft. Introduced 

 in 1824. Flowers white, with a tinge of purple; August to October. Fruit 

 purple ; ripe in October. 



Trained against a wall, this shrub has proved quite hardy, but in our cloudy 

 atmosphere it has rather disappointed expectation in the colour of its bracteas, 

 which are much less brilliant than they appear to be in the Himalayas. Cut- 

 tings or seeds, which are ripened freely, in common soil. 



Order XLI. i?UBIA^CEiE. 



Oni). Char. Calyx with a variable limb. Corolla monoj^etalous, with a 

 variable limb, but generally 4 3-lobed ; aestivation twisted or valvate. 

 Stamens equal in number to the segments of the corolla, and more or less 

 adnate to its tube. Anthers introrse. Ovarium 2- or many-celled, crowned 

 by the limb of the calyx. Sti/le 1. Stiginas 2. Fruit baccate or capsular. 

 Ce/l.i 1 2- or many-seeded. Albumen horny and fleshy. (G. Don.) 



Leaves simple, opposite, or 3 in a whorl, stipulate, deciduous. Sti- 

 pules short, distinct, or a little combined. Flowers on peduncles, naked, 

 rising from the axils of the leaves, or from the tops of the branches ; heads 

 globose, in consequence of the flowers being sessile, and seated on a sessile 

 piliferous receptacle. ] 



This order include.s a great number of genera ; but there is only one of 1 

 these that contains any ligneous species truly hard}' in British gardens. 



Genus I. 



CEPHALA'NTHUS i. 



The Butt0N-wood. 



Monogvnia. 



Lin. Syst. Tetrandria 



Identification. I.in. Oen., No. 113.'; Gtertn. Fruct., 2. t. 86. Lam. II!., t. .50. ; Juss. Mc-m. Mus.,; 



0. p. 402. ; Rich. Diss., with a fig. ; Dec. Prod., 4. p. 538. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 610. ; Lodd. Cat., o(i.| 



1836. 

 StfiKmymes. Cephalante, Fr. ; Knopflaum Ger. ; Cefalanto, Ital. ] 



Derivation. From kephaJi, a I'.ead, and ant/ws, a flower ; in allusion to the flowers being disposer 



in globular heads. 1 



Gen. Char. ^-c. Caly.v with an obversely pyramidal tube, and an angular 

 5-toothed limb. Corolla with a slender tube, and a i-cleft limb; lobe; 

 erectish. Stamens 4, short, inserted in the upper part of the tube, hardly 

 exserted. Style much exserted. Stigma capitate. Fruit inversely pvra 

 midal, crowned by the lim.b of the calyx, 2 4-? celled, and separating int( 

 2 4 parts ; cells, or parts, 1-seeded, indehiscerit, and soniecinies empty b; 

 abortion. Seeds oblong, terminating in a little callous bladder. (Don's Mill. 

 A shrub, with terete branches ; native of North America. 

 Leaves and Flowers as in the ortler. 



3t 1. C. occiDENTA^Lis L. The Western Button-wood. 



Identification. Lin. Sp., 138. ; Dec. Prod., 4. p. S.-JS. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 610. 



Synonymcs. C. oppositifftlius Mtvnch Mcth. p. 187. ; Swanij) Globe Flower, Amer. j 



Eiwravings. Du Ham. Arb., 1. t. 54. ; Schmidt .Arb., 1. t. i^. \ and oavfigs. lOl-"). and 1016. I 



Spec. Char., ($-c. Leaves opposite, or 3 in a whorl, ovate or oval, acuminates 



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