Rytacea—Skimmia. 97 
Phellodéndron Amurénse is a small hardy tree from North- 
eastern Asia, with opposite or alternate unequally pinnate 
eglandular leaves and inconspicuous dicecious flowers. 
3. SKIMMIA. 
Evergreen shrubs with alternaté simple petiolate glabrous 
lanceolate entire leaves with transparent dots and terminal 
panicles of small white flowers succeeded by scarlet berries. 
Flowers polygamous, similar in structure to those of Ptélea. 
Drupe ovoid or spherical, of 2 to 4 1-seeded pyrenes. About 
four species, from the Himalayas and Japan. The name is 
from Skimmi, the Japanese appellation. 
1. S. Japénica. The species first introduced. A bush about 
4 to 6 feet high, with terminal panicles of whitish flowers 
succeeded by scarlet berries. 
2. 8. oblata, syn. BS. Veitehit.—Very near the preceding, 
with rather larger leaves and more rounded brighter coloured 
berries. Both are natives of Japan, and will only flourish in 
favourable situations. 
8. fragrans is a form having larger panicles of sweet-scented 
flowers. 
4, CITRUS. 
The Oranges are shrubs or trees having alternate dotted 
leaves with a winged petiole jointed with the lamina. Flowers 
Fig. 68, Citrus Aurantium. (34 nat. size.) 
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