XX. CELASTRA CEE. XXI. AQUIFOLIA‘CER. 155 
% 1. N.canave'nsis Dec. ‘Ine Canadian Nemopanthes 
Identification. Dec. Mem. Soc. Gen., 1, p. 44.; Pl. Rar. Hort. Gen, t. 3.; 
Don’s Mill., 2. p. 13. 
Synony Tex dénsis Michz. Flor. Bor. Amer. 2. p. 299.; N. 
fascicularis Rafin.; I‘lex delicatula Bart. Fl. Vir. p. 67.; ? Prinos ld- 
cidus 4%. Hort. Kew. 2. p.478.; Houx du Canade, Fr. 
Engzravings. Michx. Fl. Bor. Amer. 2. t. 49., as I‘lex canadénsis ; and 
our ag. 212, 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves ovate, quite entire, or serrated at 
the apex, smooth Pedicels usually solitary, 1-flowered, 
very long. Flowers white. Berries large, beautiful 
crimson, very ornamental. (Don’s Mill.) A deciduous 
shrub. Canada to Carolina, on mountains. Height _, 
3 ft. to 5ft. Introduced in 1802. Flowers small, white ; “ 
April and May. Berry large, beautiful crimson ; ripe in 
October. Very ornamental. 
Plants of this species in the Hort. Soc. Garden, and at 
— 
id (ip 
Messrs. Loddiges’s, under the name of Prinos lucidus, WU, 
form neat fastigiate shrubs, rather of slow growth. A Ea nal 
few years ago there were some very handsome plants of SN cenaae 
this species at White Knights. Suckers or layers in loamy soil; or cuttings 
of the young wood in sand under a glass. 
Other Species of Celastracee.—Maytenus chilénsis Dec. 
(our fig. 213.), a handsome evergreen branchy shrub, 
with twiggy branchlets. The flowers are in axillary clus- 
ters, with the corolla of a yellowish green colour, not 
showy. It is a native of Chile, and stood eight or ten 
winters against a south wall in the Hort: Soc. Garden, 
and was thought to be tolerably hardy, but was killed to 
the ground in the winter of 1837-8, and did not spring up 
9 again. It also stood several winters in the open garden, as 
2 a standard, and promised to be a valuable addition to our 
213. Maytenus chilénsis. hardy evergreen shrubs, which it may possibly yet prove. 
Orver XXI. AQUIFOLIA‘CE. 
ficatic i 5 K . 63. 3 , 3 
tals eoeongre ere trive dquifoliacee, in part, Dec. Prod. 2. p.11.; Ilicinez, in part, Lindl. 
Introd. to N.S. p. 178., Don's Mill. 2. p. 14. : : ol 
Orv. CHaR. Calyx and corolla with an imbricate estivation. Sepals 4A—6. 
Corolla hypogynous, with 4—6 lobes, and as many stamens inserted into it 
alternately to its lobes. Ovary 2—6-celled ; a pendulous ovule in each 
cell. Fruit fleshy, indehiscent, with 2—6 stones, each containing a pendu- 
lous seed, which has large fleshy albumen. (Lindl. )—Low trees or shrubs, 
chiefly evergreen. Natives of Europe and North America. acts 
Leaves simple, alternate or opposite, exstipulate, evergreen or deciduous ; 
coriaceous. Flowers small, axillary, solitary or fascicled.—The genera 
containing hardy species are three, and are thus contradistinguished : — 
Myer‘npa Jacq. Sexes hermaphrodite. Stamens 4. Fruit 1-celled, 1-seeded. 
Shrubs with square branchlets ; leaves opposite, subcoriaceous, and flowers 
upon trifidly or trichotomously branched peduncles. 
Tex L. Sexes hermaphrodite, dicecious, or polygamous. Stamens 4—5. 
Fruit including 4 or 5 nuts. Evergreen shrubs with, mostly, coriaceous 
leaves. Flowers many on a peduncle. a 
Prixos L. Sexes mostly dicecious or polygamous. Stamens 6. Fruit in- 
cluding 6 nuts. Shrubs with leaves deciduous or persistent, and flowers 
lupona peduncle. 
