714 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 
Apparently a fit associate for Ligistrum, Fontanésia, 
and Prinos. 
2 2. B. (? L.) acuminata Willd, The acuminate- 
leaved Borya. 
Identification. Willd. Sp. Pl., 4. p. 711.; Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 2., vol. 5, 
Synonymes. Adélia acuminata Michx. Fl. Bor. Amer. 2. p. 225. t. 48.5 
Bigelovia acuminata Smith in Rees’s Cyclop. Addenda. 
The Sexes. Uncertain which is in England. 
Engravings. Michx. Fl. Bor, Amer., 2. t. 28. ; and our fig. 1389. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves mem- 
branous, lanceolate in almost 
a rhombic manner; but most 
tapered to the outward end; 
JZ in. long, serrulate. Male 
flowers several together in small 
sessile tufts, encompassed with 
several ovate bracteas. Fe- igs, B,figtstrina, 
male flowers stalked, very small. 
Fruit pendulous, elliptic-obiong, nearly Jin. long 
before it is ripe, tapered to the tip in a beak-like 
manner. It appears that the taper*lateral branches 
form something like thorns. (Aéchx.) Carolina and 
Georgia. An erect shrub, on the banks of rivers. 
Height 5 ft. to 10 ft. Introd. 1812. Flowers greenish. 
The only difference which we can observe between 
B. acuminata and B. /igdstrina is, that the former 
has the leaves of a paler green, and much larger. 
f The plant bears a general resemblance to a privet, 
1589. B.(?i) acuminata’ or a large Persian lilac. 
«= 3. B. (Z.) poruto'’sa Willd. The Pore-hke-dotted-leaved Borya. 
Identification. Willd. Sp. Pl., 4. p. 711.; Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 2., vol. 5. 
Synonymes. Adélia poruldsa Michz. Fl. Bor. Amer. 2. p. 224.; Bigeldvia poruldsa Smith in Recs’s 
Cyclep. Addenda; ? B. ovata Lodd. Cat. ed. 1836. 
The Sexes. Uncertain which is in England. 
Engravings. Our fig. 1390. from a specimen in the British Museum, and fig. 1391. 
from a specimen in Sir W. J. Hooker’s herbarium. 
Spec. Char., §e. Leaves coriaceous, sessile, 
lanceolately ovate, but with a blunt point, 
entire; the lateral edges revolute ; under 
surface rather rusty, and punctured with 
little holes. (Michz.) A shrub, like the 
preceding kinds. Georgia and Florida. 
Introduced in 1806. 
The plants in the collection of Messrs. 
Loddiges differ from B. digdstrina chiefly in 
1390. B. (t.) poruldsa. the leaves being shorter. 11391. B.(2.) porulosa. 
Orver LXVI. ULMA‘CEA. 
Orb. CHAR. Flowers pedicellate, hermaphrodite or polygamous, collected into 
loose small heads. Perianth free, 5-lobed. Stamens 5, opposite the lobes. 
Ovarium solitary. Stigmas 2, Fruit indehiscent, 2-celled, membranous, com- 
pressed, winged. Seed solitary in the cells, pendulous. Albumen none. (G. 
Don. i 
oe simple, alternate, stipulate, deciduous ; serrated or entire. Flowers 
axillary, on short peduncles, small.— Trees, deciduous, chiefly of large 
size ; natives of Europe, Asia, and America; included in three genera, 
which are thus contradistinguished : — 
