Cornacee—A ucuba. S17 
variety have long formed one of the most familiar objects in 
cultivation ; but the scarlet berries are still comparatively rare, 
in consequence of the absence until recently of male plants. 
The normal green-leaved form has also been introduced; and 
there are already nearly a score of different varieties offered 
by nurserymen, differing in the form or variegation of the leaf. 
The following are some of the new varieties. Male varieties: 
picta, bicolor, sulphivrea, and ovdta, with variegated foliage ; 
and véra and grandis, with green foliage. Female varieties ; 
sulphiirea, atrea margindta, and latimaculata, with varie- 
gated leaves; and longifolia, luteocdrpa, vera, and angusti- 
folia, with green leaves. 
3. GARRYA. 
Evergreen shrubs with opposite leaves and dicecious flowers 
in catkins. Petals none. Calyx-lobes and stamens 4. Berry 
l-celled, 1- or 2-seeded. There are eight species known, one 
West Indian, and the remainder from California and Mexico. 
Named after Mr. Garry, of the Hudson’s Bay Company. 
1. G. elliptica.—A handsome shrub with dark green 
coriaceous leaves, and catkins of yellowish flowers in clusters 
near the tips of the branches. The male plant only is in culti- 
vation, in which the catkins are pendulous, silky, and furnished 
with connate bracts. The flowers are produced from November 
till February. A native of California. 
Griselinia littoralis and G. lucida, are allied dicecious 
tender shrubs or small trees from New Zealand, with handsome 
coriaceous glossy oblique alternate persistent leaves; the 
former being indistinctly and the latter prominently veined 
beneath. 
The genus Nyssa comprises about half-a-dozen arborescent 
species, with polygamous small capitate flowers, 1-celled 
1-seeded drupes, and simple alternate deciduous leaves. One 
or two of the North American species are met with here and 
there, but they are very rare. NV. multiflora, syn. N. aquatica, 
villosa, etc., and N. uniflora, syn. N. denticulata, tomentosa, 
etc., are the principal species. They are both handsome trees. 
The female flowers are solitary in the latter, and the fruit 
oblong and blue, whereas in the former the female flowers are 
clustered and the fruit ovoid. There are several popular 
names applied to them, as Tupelo, Pepperidge, Sour Gum Tree, 
ete. 
