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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART 111, 



1023 



affords a kind of 

 waxy matter. (Don** 

 MUL, iv. p. 45.) A 

 tree, from 10ft. to 

 20ft. high, a native 

 of China. It was in- 

 troduced in 1794, and 

 flowers profusely in 

 September and Oc- 

 tober. This species 

 forms a very hand- 

 some low subever- 

 green tree ; or, when 

 it is not trained to a 

 singly, stem, a large 

 showy bush. There 

 are good specimens 

 of it, as trees, be- 

 tween 10 ft. and 12ft. 

 high, in the Fulham 

 and Brompton Nur- 

 series; and, as shrubs, 

 in the Horticultural 

 Society's Garden, and 

 in Messrs. Loddiges's 

 arboretum. There is a remarkably fine specimen in the Duke of Marl- 

 borough's private garden at Blenheim ; and there are some, also, at White 

 Knights. It is propagated by layers, or by grafting 

 on the common privet. Price of plants, in the 

 London nurseries, from 1*. to 1$. 6d. each. 



Variety. 



* L. /. 2 floribitndum Donald's Cat. has larger - 



bunches of flowers than the species. 

 L. salicifolium. A plant to which this name might 



be suitable has been in the arboretum at Kew since 



1823. It was raised from a withe, which had been T^ 



tied round a package of plants, received from the 



Cape of Good Hope in that year, by Mr. Smith. 



It bears a close general resemblance to the common 



privet, but differs from it in having the leaves much 



larger, and the flowers in large compound spikes, 



like those of L. lucidum. The leaves, in form, 



colour, and texture, closely resemble those of the 



plants alluded to in the following appendix, as having 



been raised by Messrs. Loddiges from Kamaon seeds. 



The plant is quite hardy, and retains its foliage the 



greater part of the winter. It flowers freely every 



ripened seeds. 



year, 



1024 

 but has not yet 



App. i. Species of Ligustrum not yet introduced. 



3fe L. sinense Lour. Coch., 19., Don's Mill., 4. p. 45., is a native of China, near Canton, with lan- 

 ceolate, tomentose leaves, white flowers, and small brown berries. It grows to the height of 6 ft. 



& LJapdnfcum Thunb. Fl. Jap., p. 17. t. 1. ; L. latifblium Vitm. ; is a native of Japan, with oblong- 

 ovate, grooved leaves, and white flowers, growing to the height of b" ft. or 8 ft. 



3fe L. pubisccns Wall. Cat, 1742., is a native of the Burmese empire, with downy branches, and 

 flowers and fruit in panicles : the berries arc oblong. 



4fe Vt.bractcolutum D. Don Prod. Kl. Nep., 107. ; L. japonicum llmnilt. ; /'hillyrc.t liraclcolata Ihrli. 

 1.<iib. ; has the leaves ovate-lanceolate, the flowers disposed in bractcato panicles, and the pcdunrlo 

 very hairy. It is a native of Nepal. 



