XLVIII. OLEA^CEiE : PHILLY'rEA. 



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<alicif6Uum, 



L. fiallcifdlium. A pUiiit to which this name might be 

 suitable was in the arboretum at Kew from 1823 to the 

 winter of 1837-8, when it was killed; and there are also 

 young plants of it in the Horticultural Society's Garden, 

 of one of which Jig. 122-1. is a specunen. 



Sfe L. japonicum Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 17. t. 1., and our Jig. 

 1225.; L. latifohum Vitm.; is a native of Japan, with oblong- 

 ovate grooved leaves, and white flowers, growing to the 

 height of 6 or 8 feet. L. ncpalense has oval-lanceolate ser- 

 rated leaves, and is a very distinct species. H. S. 



Genus II. 



r^2j. I^. japonicuiTi. 



PHILLY'REA Town. The Phillyrea. Lin. Sijst. Diandria Monogjnia. 



Identification. Toiirn. Inst., 367. ; Lin. Gen., No. 19. ; Don's Mill., 4. p. 4.5. 



Si/nonymcs. Filaria, Fr. ; Steinlinde, Ger. 



Derivation. From phulloriya. leaf ; or from Philyra, the mother of Chiron, who was changed into a tree 



Gen, Char., Sfc. Calyx small, tubular, 4toothed, permanent. Corolla short, 



campanulate, rotate, -i-cleft, deciduous. Stamens a little exserted, with short 



filaments. Style simple. Stigma thickish. Drupe globose, containing a 2- 



celled nut ; one of the cells usually abortive. Seed solitary in each cell. 



] Albumen rather farinaceous or fleshy. (Don^s Mill,^ 



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

 I in axillary racemes, greenish white. Drupes black, globose. 



Shrubs or low trees, evergreen ; natives of the South of Europe, and of 

 . some parts of Western Asia. In British gardens they have been in cultivation 

 for nearly three centuries, they are all most desirable evergreen shrubs, on ac- 

 count of their shining dark green leaves, and the fragrance of their numerous 

 white flowers. They are propagated by cuttings or layers, and will grow in 

 any common garden soil. When raised from sueds, the berries should be pre- 

 pared in a rot-heap like haws. By general observers, the phillyrea is frequently 

 confounded with the alaternus ; hut the species of that genus have their leaves 



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