CHAP. CI. 



I'LMA CEiE. 



1371 



Spec. Char., $c. In habit and leaves, somewhat resembling the common privet 

 (JLigustrum vulgare L.). Leaves with very short petioles, and disks that are 

 lanceolate-oblong, entire, somewhat membranous. Fruit rather shortly 

 ovate. (Michx. Fl. Bor. Amcr.) A native of North America, in thickets 

 about rivers, in the countries of the Illinois, Tennessee, &c. ; flowering in 

 July and August. (Smith.) Introduced into England in 1812, by Lyon; 

 and there are plants in the arboretum of Messrs. Loddiges, where it grows 

 freely in common garden soil, forming a shrub, apparently a fit associate 

 for Ligustrum, Fontanesia, and Prinos. 



& 2. B. (? L.) acuminata Willd. The acuminate-km^d Borya. 



Identification. Willd. Sp. PI., 4. p. 711.; Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 2., vol. 5. 

 Synonymes. Ad&lia acuminata Michx. Fl. Bor. Amcr. ,2. p. 225. t. 48.; 



Bigelbvw acuminata Smith in ftees's Cyclop. Addenda, Lodd. Cat., 



ed. 1836. 

 The Sexes. Uncertain which is in England. 

 Engravings. Michx. F). Bor. Amer., 2. t. 28. ; and our fig. 1229. 



Spec. Char., fyc. Leaves membranous, lanceolate in 

 almost a rhombic manner ; but most tapered to the 

 outward end ; Him long, serrulate. — Male flowers 

 several together in small sessile tufts, encompassed 

 with several ovate bracteas. — Female flowers 

 stalked, very small. Fruit pendulous, elliptic-ob- 

 long, nearly 1 in. 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. 

 (Michx. and Smith.) Indigenous to the banks of 

 rivers in Carolina and Georgia. Introduced into 

 England in 1812; but the plants in the arboretum 

 of Messrs. Loddiges have not yet flowered. The 

 only difference which we can observe between 

 B. acuminata and B. /igustrina is, that the former 

 has the leaves of a paler green. 



as 3. B. (l.) porulo'sa Willd. The pore-like-dotted-leaved Borya. 



Identification. Willd. Sp. PI., 4. p. 711. ; Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 2., vol. 5. 



Synony?nes. Adclia poruldsa Michx. Fl. Bor. Amer., 2. p. 224. ; Bigelbvw poruldsa Smith in Bees's 



Cyclop., Addenda ; ? B. ovata Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836. 

 The Sexes. Uncertain which is in England. 



pec Char , $c Leaves coriaceous, sessile, lanceolutely ovate, but with a 

 blunt point, entire ; the lateral edges revolute ; under surface rather rusty, 

 and punctured with little holes. (Michx. Fl. Bor. Amer.) It is indigenous 

 to the coasts of Georgia and Florida. Introduced into England in 1806. 

 The plants in the collection of Messrs. Loddiges differ from B. /igustrina, 

 chiefly in the leaves being shorter. 



si 4. B. distichophy'lla Nutt. The two-rowed-leaved Borya. 



Identification. Nutt. Gen. N. Amer. PI., 2. p. 232. 



Spec. Char., %c. A shrub, 12 ft. to 16 ft. high. Leaves in two rows, subsessile, lanceolate, acute, entire 



rough at the edge, membranous. Branchlets very slender. Scales of the bud pungently acute, 



[7] " confluent in the leaves." Indigenous to the banks of French Broad River, East Tennessee. 



(Nuttall, who had seen it alive.) Mr. George Don thinks that this plant has been introduced ; but 



we have never seen it. 



CHAP. CI. 



OF THE HARDY LIGNEOUS PLANTS OF THE ORDER f/LMA v CE55. 



They are included in three genera, which have the following names and 

 characters : — 



U'i.mus L. Flowers, in most species, protruded earlier than the shoots 

 and leaves of the year; disposed in groups, each group lateral, and proceeding 



