410 TORREYA. 



valvate scales, containing two emarginate winged seeds at. the 

 base of each. 



This kind was originally raised many years ago by Mr. 

 Ware, a nurseryman at Coventry, and forms a dense conical 

 bush, furnished with branches down to the ground, and from, 

 eight to ten feet high. 



Gen. TOEREYA. Arnott. The Stinking Yews. 



Flowers dioecious, or male and female on different plants. 

 Males solitary ; females in twos or threes, and erect, and all 

 axillary. 



Fruit one-seeded, drupaceous, or fleshy on the outside like 

 the common plum. 



Seeds singly in each fruit, with the albumen ruminated like 

 the inside of the common nutmeg, and covered with a hard 

 bony shell. 



Leaves linear, or lanceolate, decurrent at the base, and either 

 opposite or alternate. 



Seed-leaves in twos. 



Named in compliment to Dr. Torrey, the celebrated Ameri- 

 can botanist, and one of the authors of the North American Flora. 



All small evergreen trees, found either in North America, 

 China, or Japan, and emitting a strong disagreeable smell from 

 aU parts when bruised. 



No. 1. ToEEETA Califoenica, Tovrey, the Californian 

 Nutmeg. 



Syn. Torreya myristica, Hooker. 



Leaves in two rows, long, narrow, and opposite on the 

 branchlets, but somewhat alternate and scattered round the 

 stems and principal shoots, linear-lanceolate, mostly quite 



