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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART III. 



5 5. O. STRIA'TA Swt. The striped-barked Flowering Ash. 



Identification. Swt. Hort. Brit, p. 256. ; Don's Mill., 4. p. 57. 

 Synonyme. Fraxinus striata Bosc ex Sp)-eng. Syst., 1. p. 95. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves with 7 pairs of leaflets, which are villous beneath, as well as the petioles, 

 and oblong, petiolulate, acute, toothed. Buds green. Branches striated. (Don's Mill., iv. p. 57.) 

 A tree, a native of North America, where it grows to the height of 30ft. It flowers in April and 

 May, and was introduced in 1818. We have not seen this sort. 



App. i. Hardy Species ofO'rnus not yet introduced. 



O. xanthoxylb"/des G. Don ; Fr&xinus xanthoxyloldes Wall. Cat., No. 2833. ; has the leaves pinnate ; 

 and 5 leaflets, which are small, oblong, tapering to the base, with the apex crenated, and almost sessile. 

 Flowers lateral, aggregate. Fruit lateral, aggregate. Samaras with emarginate wings. A tree, 

 native to Sirinaghur. 



O. Moorcroftiann G. Don ; Fraxinus Moorcroftiana Wall. Cat., No. 2834.; has the leaves pinnate ; 

 and leaflets, which are 5, oblong, acuminated at both ends, glabrous, almost sessile, paler beneath, 

 finely denticulated, the odd one the largest. Fruit disposed in simple, aggregate, lateral racemes. 

 Samara with an emarginate wing, furnished with a little point in the centre of the notch. A tree, 

 native to Luddac, in the East Indies. 



O. urophi'iUa G. Don ; ' Fraxinus urophylla Wall. Cat., No. 2835. Leaves pinnate, on long petioles. 

 Leaflets 57, on long petiolules, membranous, ovate-oblong, long-acuminated, serrated. Peduncles 

 panicled, axillary. Flowers much smaller than those of 0. floribiinda. A tree, native to Silhet, on 

 the Pundua Mountains. (Don's Mill., iv. p. 57.) 



App. ii. Alphabetical List of the Sorts of Fraxinus and Q'rnus 

 in the Arboretum of Messrs. Loddiges, and in the Horticultural 

 Society's Garden, with their Names referred to the different 

 Species to which they are presumed to belong. 



The names which are applied to the same plants in the Hackney and Chiswick collections, and in 

 the Arboretum Britannicum, are in small capitals ; and those of which there are plants in the 

 Chiswick Garden, but not in the Hackney arboretum, have the letters H. S. placed after them. 



