192 Fanamehdeea—Ligquidambar. 
2. LIQUIDAMBAR. 
Trees with a balsamic juice. Leaves alternate, glabrous, de- 
ciduous, palmately lobed ; petioles long and slender. Male and 
female flowers separate, with four large bracts forming an in- 
volucre at the base of each head. Petals none. Capsules 
woody, several together, splitting between the cells. Seeds 
several, angular, shortly winged. There are only three 
species known, one from the Levant, one North American, and 
one lately discovered in the island of Formosa. The name 
was given in consequence of one species producing the liquid 
storax. 
1. L, Styraciflua.—tThis is a small crect-growing tree of 
elegant appearance, especially towards Autumn, when the 
leaves change to a bright red, and remain on the tree for some 
time afterwards. In foliage it resembles some of the Maples, 
but the leaves being alternate it is readily distinguished. 
North America. 
2. L. imbérbe, syn L. orientalis.—Very near the foregoing, 
but of a more shrubby habit; the palmate usually 5-lobed 
leaves are scattered alone the branches, not tufted at the 
extremities, and the main divisions of the leaves are again 
lobed. A native of the Levant, and rare in British gardens. 
Corylépsis spicita is a handsome deciduous Japanese shrub 
with Hazel-like leaves and drooping bracteate spikes of yellow- 
ish fragrant flowers produced in Spring before the foliage is 
developed. 
Orper XLIII.—_HALORAGEZ. 
A small family of marsh and water plants, chiefly insignifi- 
cant weeds. Flowers small and often incomplete, parts in twos 
or fours. The Water Milfoil (A/yriophyllum) and Mare’s 
Tail (Hippiris) belong to this order. The only species 
worthy of further notice here is of very distinct and peculiar 
habit, as will be seen from the cut. 
1. GUNNERA, 
Herbs with large radical leaves. Flowers in dense spikes or 
branched panicles. About twelve species are known, nearly 
