508 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 
Leaves simple, opposite, exstipulate, sub-evergreen : entire. Flowers large, 
white. — A large shrub or low tree. Himalayas. Culture as in Cérnus. 
* 1. B. rraci’rera Lindi. The Strawberry-bearing Benthamia. 
Identification. Wort. Trans., 2d series, 1. p.458.; Lindl. in Bot. Reg., t. 1579. 
Synonymes. C. capitata Wall. in Roxb. FL Ind. 1. p. 434., Don's Mill. 3. p, 399. ; Chung-wa, im 
Nepal; Bhumowro, in Serampore. 
Engravings. Bot. Reg., t. 1579.; Hort. Trans., 2d series, ].t.17.; andour jig. 924. 
Spec. Char., §c. Branches spreading, smooth. Me 
Leaves lanceolate, acuminated at both ends, on 
short petioles, rather rough with small ad- 
pressed down. Flowers sessile, densely aggre- 
gate, forming a round head girded by a 4-leaved 
scabrous involucrum. (Don’s Mill.) <A large ff 
sub-evergreen shrub or low tree. Nepal, in | 
Gossainthan. Height 10 ft. to 15. ft. Intro- 
duced in 1825. Flowers large, yellowish white ; 
June. Fruit large, about the size of that of the 
common arbutus, reddish; ripe in October ; 
yellowish white within, not unpleasant to eat 
Young shoots whitish green. 
Rather tender in the climate of London, though 
it forms a fine evergreen in some parts of Cornwall: perhaps it might be ren- 
dered hardier by grafting it on Cérnus sanguinea. Readily propagated either 
from seeds or cuttings, and of easy culture in loamy soil, kept moist. 
924. B. frayifera. 
Benthamia japénica is figured by Sieboldt (t. 16.), and is probably hardy. 
Orper XXXIX. LORANTHACEA. 
Orb. Car. Calyx calyculate, entire or lobed. Petals 4—8, distinct or co- 
hering ; zstivation valvate. Stamens 4—8, opposite the petals, or more or 
less adnate to them. Style absent or present. Stigma capitate. Berry 
1-celled, 1-seeded, crowned by the calyx. Albumen fleshy. Flowers gene- 
rally unisexual. The habit, and the stamens being opposite the petals, 
distinguish this from Caprifoliaceze and Cornacex. (G. Don.) 
Leaves simple, opposite, exstipulate, evergreen; entire. Plowers small, 
whitish, or purplish. — Shrubs, parasitical or terrestrial. Europe and Japan. 
The hardy ligneous plants are included in the genera Viscum, Loranthus, 
and Atcuba, 
Vi’scum L. Flowers dicecious or monecious. Margin of the calyx ob- 
solete. Petals usually 4, connected at the base in the male flowers, but free 
in the female. Berry globular, viscid, of 1 cell. 
Lora’nruus L. Flowers dicecious or hermaphrodite. Margin of calyx 
entire. Petals 5—6, linear, reflexed. 
Au’cuBa Thunb. Flowers diccious. Calyx 5-toothed. Petals 4, ovate 
lanceolate: Fruit fleshy, 1-seeded. 
Genus I. 
Lem 
VYSCUM L. Tue Misrieror. Lin. Syst. Monee'cia, or Dice‘cia, 
Tetrandria. ‘ 
Identification. Tourn, Inst., p. 609. ; Dec. Prod., 4. p. 277.; Don's Mill., 3. p. 402, 
