916 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 
1711. €. argéntea. 1712. C. javanica. 
the volcanic mountain of Gedé. Blume mentions two varieties : C.j. mon- 
tana, C. montana Blume Bjdr. 10. p. 526.; and C. j. fucéscens. (Blume.) 
C. inérmis Lindl. in Wall. Pl. As. Rar. is a native of Singapore. 
C. chinénsis Spreng. is mentioned in our Hortus Britannicus. 
Genus IV. 
Pale 
CA’RPINUS ZL. Tue Hornseam. Lin. Syst. Monce'cia Polyandria. 
Identification. Lin. Gen., 497.; Juss., 409.; Fl. Br., 1029.; N. Du Ham., 2. p. 197. 
Synonymes. Carne, Charme, Fr.; Haynbuche, or Hainbuche, Ger. ; Carpino, Ital. 
Derivation. According to some, from car, wood, and piz, the head, Celtic; from the wood being 
used to make the yokes of oxen: and, according to others, from the Romans using the wood for 
making a sort of chariot, which they called carpentum, and which the Swedes still call karm. The 
French name, Charme, is evidently from the same origin. The English name of Hornbeam al- 
ludes to the horny texture of the wood; and the German one of Hainbuche, to the use of the 
wood for making groves in the geometric style of gardening. : 
Gen. Char., §c. Male flowers. Catkin lateral, sessile, cylindrical. Bracteas 
imbricate. Flowers consisting of 12 or more stamens inserted at the base 
of a bractea. Anthers bearded at the tip, 1-celled.— Female flowers in lax 
terminal catkins. Bracteas of two kinds, outer and inner; outer bracteas 
entire, soon falling off ; inner bracteas in pairs, each 3-lobed. Calya cloth- 
ing the ovary to near its tip, and adhering to it; toothed at the tip. Style 
very short. Stigmas 2, long, thread-shaped. Fruit not attended by the 
involucre ; ovate, compressed, ribbed, clothed except at the base, and 
tipped with the adnate calyx ; woody ; including one seed. (G. Don.) 
Leaves simple, alternate, exstipulate, deciduous ; feather-nerved, plaited 
in the bud. Flowers very small, greenish. — Trees, mostly of the middle 
size; natives of Europe, the Levant, and North America; little valued 
