SALISBUEIA, 375 



with a smooth, glossy, yellowish skin outside. Seed-leaves in 

 twos. 



A large, deciduous tree, with rather a conical-shaped head, 

 and straight stem, covered with a grayish, rough bark when 

 old, and with the sexes on separate trees. 



It is found abundantly in China and Japan, growing from 

 80 to 100 feet high and from six to twelve feet in diameter. 



Professor Bunge, who accompanied the Russian Mission to 

 Pekin, states that he saw, near a pagoda, an immense " Ginkgo," 

 with a trunk nearly 40 feet in circumference, and of prodigious 

 height, but still in perfect vigour. 



The Japanese names for this tree are " Ginan" (deciduous 

 tree), and " Fusi-kin-go " (buds crowned with leaves in sum- 

 mer). The Chinese call it "Ginkgo" (full of leafless buds in 

 winter), in addition to " Ginan," " Quachow," and " Gin-ki-go " 

 (a tree without leaves in winter). 



It is <itiite hardy, and has the following varieties : — 



Salisburia adiantifolia macrophylla, Sort. 



Syn. Salisburia adiantifolia laciniata, Carrilre. 

 „ „ macrophylla, Meynier. 



„ Ginkgo biloba laciniata. Sort. 



This variety differs from the species, in its leaves being very 

 much larger, some of them measuring ten inches in circumfe- 

 rence, and divided in two, three, or five lobes— the principal 

 lobes being again subdivided, and undulated, and irregularly 

 laciniated, or dentated on the edges ; a very fine variety, of 

 French origin. 



Salisburia adiantifolia vaeiegata, Garrihre. 



This variety differs from the ordinary form, by its leaves 

 being variegated and striped with pale yellow. It is a very 

 nice variety. 



Salisburia adiantifolia pendula. Van Geert. 



This variety only differs in having the branches pendulous. 



