666 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 
1292. L europe um. 
Valuable for covering naked walls, as it grows with 
extreme rapidity, and flowers and fruits freely, in almost 
any soil or situation. Established plants, in good soil, 
will make shoots 10 or 12 feet in length in one season ; 
and the plant, when trained against a house or high 
wall, will reach the height of 30 or 40 feet, as mav be 
y seen in some courts in Paris. Trained to a strong 
iron rod, to the height of 20 or 30 feet, and then allowed 
to spread over an umbrella head, it would make a 
splendid bower. Its shoots would hang down to the 
ground, and form a complete screen on every side, 
ornamented from top to bottom with ripe fruit, which is 
bright scarlet or yellow, and very showy; with unripe 
fruit, which is of a lurid purple; or with blossoms, which 
are purple and white. Some idea of the quantity of ripe 
and unripe fruit, and of blossoms, which may be found 
on a shoot at one time, may be formed from fig. 1292., 
which is only a portion of a shoot, the upper part of 
which (not exhibited in the figure) contained two or 
three dozen of fruit, all ripe at once. | 
Varieties. There is a variety with yellow fruit, and 
another with the fruit roundish ; and, in our opinion, 
ZL. barbarum, chinénse, ruthénicum, Shaw, and 
Trewianum, all of which we have seen in Loddiges’s 
arboretum, and in the Paris gardens in 1840, are 
nothing more than variations of the same form. 
4 2. L. (.) pa’rparum L. The Barbary Box Thorn. 
Identification. Win. Sp., 277.3 Don’s Mill., 4. p. 458. 
Synonymes. L. halimifodlium Mill. Dict. No.6. ; L. barbarum o vulgare 
Ait. Hort, Kew, 1. p.257.; the Duke of Argyll’s Tea Tree. 
Engravings. Dend. Brit., t.9.; and our fig. 1293. 
Spec. Char., §c. Branches depend- _ 
ent. Buds spiny. Leaves lan- 
ceolate, flat, glabrous, acute. 
Flowers twin, extra-axillary, pe- 
dicellate. Corolla funnel-shaped. 
Stamens exserted, about equal in 
length to the limb. Branches 
angular. Buds often without 
spines. Calyx 2—3-lobed. Co- 
rolla with a purple limb, and 
yellowish base. Stigma 2-lobed. 
Berry ovate, yellow. Stamens 
bearded near the base. Tliere is 
a variety of this, having livid or 
pale corollas, and reddish yellow 
berries. (Don’s Mill.) A climbing J 
deciduous shrub. North of Asia, yo95 1, ¢ paxbarum. 
Africa, and South of Europe. 
Stem 20 ft. to 30 ft. Introduced in 1696. Flowers 
and other particulars as in L. europea, 
+ & 3. L. (g.) cHine’nse Mill. The Chinese Box Thorn. 
Identification. _ Mill. Dict., No. 5.: Don’s Mill., 4. p. 458. 
Synonymes. L. barbarum @ chinénse Ait. Hort. Kew.1. p. 257.3 L. 
barbarum Lour. Coch. 1. p. 165.?; ZL. ovatum N. Du Ham. 1. p. 107. 
Engravings. Dend. Brit., t,8.; and our jig. 1294. from the N. Du 
am., and jig. 1295. from a living specimen. 
Spec. Char., §c. Branches pendulous, prostrate, striated. 
Buds spinescent. Leaves by threes, ovate, acute, 
