LXXVI. TAXA CEE: SALISBU‘RIA. 945 
and consisting of a rather globose calyx, contracted to a point, and then 
expanded into a narrow limb, and including an ovary. Calyx fleshy and 
persistent, becoming a drupaceous covering to a nut, which is rather egg- 
shaped, and very slightly compressed. (G. Don.) 
Leaves simple, alternate, stipulate, deciduous ; deeply cut or lobed, alike 
on both surfaces, with long petioles. Flowers yellowish. — Tree deciduous, 
large, native of Japan, quite hardy in the climate of London, and of easy 
culture in common garden soil. 
Remarkable for the singularity of its leaves, which seem to unite Coniferz 
with the Corylaceze. Propagated by cuttings or layers in good loamy soils. 
¥ 1, 8S, apiantiFo‘tia Smith. The Maiden-hair-leaved Salisburia, 
or Ginkgo Tree. 
Identification. Trans. Lin. Soc., 3. p. 330.; Willd. Sp. Pl., 4. p. 472. 
Synonymes. Gingko, Gin-an, or Itsjo, Kempf. Ameen., p 811. ; Ginkgo biloba Lin. Mant. p.313.; 
Noyer du Japon, Arbre aux quarante E’cus, Fr.; Albero adianto, Ztal. 
The Sexes. Both sexes are in the Kew Botanic Garden, in the Hackney Arboretum, and in our 
garden at Bayswater. : 
Engravings. Kempf. Amen., p. 811. f.; Dend. Brit., t. 168.; Jacquin Ueber den Ginkgo, t. 1.; 
the plates of this tree in Arb. Brit., lst edit., vol. viii. ; and our figs. 1757. and 1758. 
Spec. Char., §c. See Gen. Char. A large conical deciduous tree. Japan 
and China. Height 60 ft. to 80 ft. Introduced in 1754. Flowers yel- 
lowish. Only those of the male yet seen in England. Decaying leaves 
yellow, or yellowish green. 
The male catkins, which appear with the leaves in May, on the wood 
of the preceding year or on old spurs, are sessile, about 14 in. long, and 
of a yellowish colour. The female flowers, according to Richard, have 
1757. 8S. adjantifolia. 
this particularity, that each is in part enclosed in a sort of cup, like the female 
flowers of Dacrydium. This covering is supposed to be produced by a dilata- 
tion of the summit of the peduncle, as may be seen in our figure. The fruit 
consists of a globular or ovate drupe, about lin. in diameter ; containing a 
white nut, or endocarp, somewhat flattened, of a woody tissue, thin, and 
breaking easily. The fruit has been ripened in the South of France, and 
young plants raised from it. The sh grows with considerable rapidity in the 
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