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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART III. 



*_ 2. S. ANGUSTIFO^LIA Lindl. The narrow-leaved Sollya. 



Identification. Lindl., in Bot. Reg., 1. 1466. 



Synonymes. Billardira fusilormis Lab. Nov. Holl., Don's Mill., 1. p. 373., and London's Hort. 

 Brit., No. 5530. 



Engraving. LabilL Nov. Holl., t. 90. 



Spec. Char.,S(c. Flowers cream-coloured, changing to bluish. Fruit dry, the pericarp villous, of 

 the consistence of parchment. (Lindl., in Bot. Reg., t. 1466. ; Don's Mill., \. p. 373., under Billar- 

 diera fusifdrmis Lab.) Branches hardly climbing; younger ones rather villous. Leaves lanceolate, 

 entire. Cymes few flowered. Petals spreading. Native of Van Diemen's Land. A green-house 

 climbing shrub. Flowers in May and August. Cultivated in Britain in 1823. (Don's Mill., i. 

 p. 373., under the name Billardiem fusifdrmis Lab.) This species deserves trial against a con- 

 servative wall, along with the other*. 



GENUS III. 



PITTO'SPORUM Bank. 



THE PITTOSPORUM. 

 Monogynia. 



Lin. Si/st. Pentandria 



Identification. Banks, in Gajrt. Fr. 1. p. 286. t.59. ; Dec. Prod., 1. p. 346. ; and Don's Mill 1 

 p. 373. 



Derivation. From pitta, pitch, and sporos, a seed ; in allution to the seeds being covered with a 

 sticky pulp. 



Gen. Char. Calyx of 5 sepals. Petals 5, with the claws conniving into a connate tube. Capsules 

 smooth or hairy ; 2 5-valved, 1-celled, bearing a dissepiment in the middle of each valve. Seeds 

 covered with a resinous pulp. (Don's Mill., i.'p. 373.) Evergreen shrubs, or low trees, with entire 

 permanent leaves, generally more or less lanceolate. The species known to be half-hardy are two, 

 but all the rest may be equally so. 



* 1. P. TOBIRA Ait. The Tobira Pittosporum. 



Identification. Sims Bot. Mag., 1396. ; Dec. Prod., 1. p. 346. ; and Don's Mill., 1. p. 373 

 Si/nunymes. u6nymus Tobira Thunb., chap. 99. ; Pitt6sporum chinense Down's. H. Cantab., 48. 



Tobira Japane, Fr.; Chinesischer Klebsaame, Ger. 



Engravings. Kajmpf. Amoen., t 797. ; Bot Mag., 1. 1396. ; and our fig. 82, 

 Spec. Char., fyc. Leaves obovate, obtuse, coriaceous, quite smooth. 



Peduncles 1-flowered, pubescent, disposed in aggregate umbels. 



(Don's Mill., i. p. 373.) An evergreen shrub, growing to the height 



of 12 ft in its native country, and producing its cream-coloured 



flowers from March till August. It was introduced in 1804, and 



is generally treated as a green-house plant ; but, planted in a warm 



situation against a wall, it endures the winters of the climate of 



London without any protection when they are mild; and with the 



ground covered with litter, and the branches screened by a mat, 



when they are severe. The plant will grow in any free soil, suf- 

 ficiently drained, and is readily propagated by cuttings of the 



young wood in sand. The largest specimens of which we have 



received any accounts are in Ireland ; one in the Cullenswood 



Nursery, near Dublin, 20 years planted, being 1C ft. high, as a 



standard in the open air. In the neighbourhood of London, 



there are various plants placed against the ends and fronts of 



green-houses, which have reached 5 ft. or 6 ft. in height in as many years ; which are protected 



by a mat in very severe winters, and which, when not protected, sometimes die dowu to the 



ground, and spring up again the following season. Their glossy 



dark green leaves, and fragrant cream-coloured flowers, are very 



ornamental during summer. Price of plants, in the London 



nurseries, 2s. 6d. each, 



* 2. P. UNDULA V TUM. The undulated-leaved 

 Pittosporum. 



Identification. And. Bot. Rep. ; Vent. Hort. Cels. ; Ker Bot. Reg 



Dec. Prod., 1. p. 346. ; Don's Mill., p. 373. 

 Engravings. Vent. Hort. Cels, 1. t. 76. ; Bot. Rep., t. 393. ; Delauny, 



Herb. Amat., 1 36. ; Schrad. Gen. 111., t 4. ; Bot Reg., 1 16. ; and 



our fig. 83. 

 Spec. Char , fyc. Leaves oval-lanceolate, undulated, tapering at both 



ends, and, as well as the footstalks, glabrous. Peduncles terminal, 



aggregate, pubescent, branched, many. flowered. (Don's Mill., i. 



p. 373.) An evergreen shrub, growing to the height of 10ft., in- 

 troduced in 1789, and producing its white flowers from May to 



June As hardy as the preceding species. The finest plant in 

 1 England is understood to be in the conservatory at Ashridge 



Park, which, when we saw it in 1829, was 12 ft. high. In various 



situations, it has lived against a wall, protected during winter 



and flowering freely in summer. Culture, uses, price, &c., as in 



the preceding species. 



