630 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 
should be treated like haws, and kept a year in the rot-heap, or sown imme- 
diately after being gathered, as, if otherwise treated, they will not come up for 
18 months. As shrubs, privet plants require very little pruning; but, as low 
trees, they must have the side shoots from the stem carefully rubbed off when- 
ever they appear. Treated as hedges, or as verdant sculptures, they may be 
clipped twice a year, in June and March ; and, every five or six years, the sides 
of the hedges ought to be severely cut in, one side at a time, so as to remove 
the network of shoots, which, in consequence of continual clipping, forms on 
the exterior surface, and which, by preventing the air from getting to the main 
stems, would in time seriously injure the plants. 
uo % 2 2. L. spica‘tum Hamilt. The spiked-flowered Privet. 
Identification. Hamilt. MSS. ex D. Don Prod. Fl. Nep., p. 107.; Don’s Mill., 4. p. 45. 
Synonymes. L. nepalénse Wall. iv Roz. Fl. Ind. 1. p. 151.3; L. lanceolatum Herb. Lamb. 
ELngravings. Pl. Asiat. Rar., 3. p. 17. t. 231.3 and our fig. 1220 . 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves elliptic, acute, hairy 
beneath, as well 
as the branchlets. 
Flowers crowd- 
ed, almost sessile, 
spicate, disposed 
in a thyrse, hav- 
ing the axis very 
hairy. Bracteas 
minute. (Don’s 
Mill.)  A_sub- 
evergreen shrub. 
Nepal, on moun- 
tains. Height 
6 ft. to 8 ft. In- 
troduced in 1823. 
Flowers white; : My 
1220, 4, spichtum. June and July. 1221. 41. s. glabruin. 
Variety. 
a « L.s, 2 gldbrum Hook. in Bot. Mag. t. 2921., and our fig. 1221.—A 
native of Nepal, where it is called Goom gacha. The trunk and limbs 
are covered with warts, but the young branches are glabrous. 
Though commonly treated as a green-house plant, there can be little doubt 
of its being as hardy as L. licidum, the species to be next described. It 
should be grafted on the common privet ; and, if planted in a dry soil and 
rather sheltered situation open to the sun, it will be the more likely to make 
no more wood than what it can ripen before winter. 
ao % 23. L..u‘cipum Ait. The shining-/eaved Privet, or Wax Tree. 
Identification. Ait. Hort. Kew., 1. p. 19. ; Don’s Mill, 4. p. 45. 
Engravings. Bot. Mag., t. 2565, ; and our fig. 1222. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves ovate-oblong, acuminated, shining above. Panicles 
thyrsoid, spreading much. Leaves broad. Flowers white. This tree affords 
a kind of waxy matter. (Don’s Mill.) A low sub-evergreen tree. China. 
Height 10 ft. to 20ft. Introduced in 1794. Flowers white ; September and 
October : and, as in the preceding species, not followed by fruit in England. 
Variety. 
a 2L. 1 2 floribindum Donalds Cat., and our Jig. 1223., has larger 
bunches of flowers than the spccies. 
_A very handsome low sub-evergreen trec; or, when it is not trained to a 
single stem, a large showy bush. 
