LXXIII. BALSAMA‘CEZ: LIQUIDA’MBAR. 933 
prickly catkins which contain the seeds are hard, and not readily broken with 
the hand; but, by exposure to the sun or to fire heat, they crack and open, 
and the seeds may then be easily shaken out. They may be sown and treated 
like seeds of the pine and fir tribe ; but, unlike them, they lie a year in the 
ground before coming up. Seedlings generally attain the height of from 5 in. 
to 8in. the first year, with numerous fibrous roots. They may either be 
transplanted that year or the next, and may afterwards undergo the usual 
routine culture in nursery lines, till they are wanted for final transplanting. 
¥ 2. L. mpe’RBE Willd. The beardless, or Oriental, Liquidambayr. 
Identification. Willd. Sp. Pl., 4. p. 475.; Ait. Hort. Kew., 3. p. 365.; N. Du Ham., 2. p. 44, 
Synonymes. L. orientalis Mill. Dict. No. 2.; ? Platanus orientalis Pocock. Itin, 2. t.89.; L.im- 
bérbis Smith in Rees’s Cycl. 
Engravings. ? Pocock. Itin., 2. t. 89.; and our jig. 1739. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves palmate-lobed, with the sinuses at the base of the 
veins ; smooth. (JWilld.) A low stunted tree, or large bush, of slow 
growth, with numerous small branchestcrowded together into an irregular 
head. Levant. Height 10 ft. to 20. ft. Introduced in 1759. Flowers ?. 
The young shoots are pliant and reddish ; the leaves are much like those of 
the preceding species, but smaller, and more resembling those of the common 
maple; because they are bluntly notched, while the others are acutely 
1739. L. imbérbe. L.imbérbe. 1740. L. Styraciflua. 
so. (See fig. 1740., in which a is a leaf of L. Styraciflua, and 3 one of L. im- 
bérbe, both to the same scale.) The veins of the leaves, in this species, are 
naked, while in the other they are hairy at the base of the midrib, The 
flowers are disposed like those in the preceding species, and the fruit is 
smaller, and more sparingly furnished with prickly points. The rate of 
growth, in the climate of London, is slow, being not more than 5 or 6 feet 
in ten years. It will grow in a soil rather drier than suits the preceding 
species; though Du Hamel was informed that in its native country it grows in 
moist soil, by water, like the 
common willow. 
L. Altingia Blume Bjdr. 10. 
p- 527. (FL. Jav., t. 1.5 and 
our fig. 1741.) Altingia ex- 
célsa Noronha in Batav. Ver- 
hand. 5. p.1., Pers. Syn. 2. 
p. 579., Spreng. Syst. Veg. 3. 
. 888., Lamberts Genus 
Pinus, 1, t. 39, 40.; Lignum 
papuanum Rumph. Herbar. 
Amboyn. 2. p. 5%.; Alting’s 
Liquidambar.—Leaves ovate- 
oblong, acuminate, serrated, 
glabrous. (Blume.) A tree, 
with a spreading head, from 
150 ft. to 200 ft. high, It is 1741. L, Altingia, 
