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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART 



esting shrub, from its curious round heads of flowers, and from the lateness 

 of the season at which these appear. Price of plants, in the London nur- 

 series, 1*. 6d. ; at Bollwyller, 1 franc; and at New York, 25 cents. 

 Variety, 



■& C. o. 2 brachypodns. Dec. Prod., iv. p. 539. — Leaves elliptic-oblong, 

 3 in a whorl, or short petioles ; petioles 3 — 4* lines long. There are 

 varieties of this, with either glabrous or downy branches. A native 

 of the north of Mexico, near Rio de la Trinidad and Bejar, where it 

 was collected by Berlandier. (Don's Mill., iii. p. 610.) 



Some other species of Ccphaldnthns are described in De Candolle's Prodromas 

 and Don's JMiller ; but they are natives of South America, the East Indies, 

 or China, and are considered as requiring the green-house or the stove. 



App. I. Half-hardy ligneous Plants belonging to the Order 

 Rubidcece. 



Pincknlys. pit bens Michx. (North Amer. Syl., 1. p. 260. t. 49. ) 

 and out Jig. 83<l), Pinckneya pubi5scens Pers., Cinchona caro- 

 liniana Poir., is a tree growing to the height of 20 ft., in 

 Georgia, South Carolina, and other parts of North America. 

 The branches and leaves are tomentose, and the flowers 

 rather large, pubescent, and white, tinged with red. The 

 tree divides into numerous branches, and is covered with large 

 light green leaves, which are downy beneath, but it is not par- 

 ticularly ornamental. In America it is called Georgia bark, 

 and was originally supposed to belong to the same genus as 

 the cinchona, which it strongly resembles. It is interesting 

 for the properties of its bark ; which partakes of the same 

 bitter qualities as that of the cinchona ; and which is employed 

 successfully in the alleviation of the intermittent fevers which 

 prevail in the country where it is a native. The wood is 

 soft, and unfit for use in the arts. In England, the plant is 

 generally kept in green-houses or cold-pits; but it will 

 thrive much better if planted in the free ground, and trained 

 against a wall with a southern exposure. It requires a shady situation, and is said to thrive best 

 in a mixture of sand and peat. 



Serfssa fce'tida Comm. in Juss. Gen. (Don's Mill., 3. p. 633.) ; iycium japonicum T/iunb. (Bot. 

 Mag., t 561., and our Jig. 831.); iycium fee tidum Lin. fil. ; Lycium fndicum Retz. ; Dysbda 

 fasciculata Lour. Coch., p. 146. ; Buchuz?'acoprosm6idesZ,'HeV?/. 

 Dm., with a fig. ; Dysbda fce'tida Salisb. Prod., p. 60. ; Sperma- 

 cbee fruticosa Desf. Hort. Par. ; is a native of China, Japan, and 

 other parts of the East, where it forms a bushy shrub, growing to 

 the height of 2 ft. or 3 ft., with small, dark green, shining leaves, 

 a little deflexed ; and flowers which are white within, and reddish 

 without, and often single and double on the same plant. In Japan, 

 it is frequently planted for hedges. It was introduced in 1787, 

 and grows freely in our green-houses, in a mixture of loam, peat, 

 and sand, flowering during the most part of the summer. 



Pldcama pitndula Ait. ; Bartlingia scoparia Rchb. Icon. Exot., 

 t. 11. ; is a small, glabrous, much branched shrub, with the 

 branches round, slender, and pendulous, and the leaves linear, 

 filiform, and opposite. It is a native of the Canary Islands, 

 where it grows to the height Of 2 ft. ; and was introduced in 

 177!', but has not yet flowered. 



YhMis Nbbla L. (Dill. Elth., p. 405. t. 299. f. 386.) has been an 

 inhabitant of our green-houses since 1699. It is a glabrous 

 shrub, with round branches, and small greenish white flowers, which are produced in June and July. 

 Aathotpirmum tBthidpicum L. ; Ambraria Hefsteri Walth. Hort, t.9., Hort. Cliff., t. 27., Pluk. 

 Aim., t. 193. f. 1. ; is a branched shrub, with small linear leaves, shining above, and whitish beneath. 

 The male and female flowers are produced on different plants, the former being brownish, and the 

 latter green. This i6 an evergreen Cape shrub, an old inhabitant of our green-houses, where it forms 

 a dense fastigiate bush, sometimes as high as 4 ft, and flowering in June and July. It well deserves 

 a place against the conservative wall. 



li.il/jiafruticdsa Ait., Don's Mill., 3. p. 643., Jacq. Icon. Rar., t. 25. ; R. fruticosa canadensis Poir. ; 

 is a native of the Canary Islands, where it grows to the height of 4 ft. or 5 ft, and produces its small 

 yellowish flowers in September. It is chiefly remarkable for its leaves, which are from 2 to 6 in a 

 whorl ; and, as it is somewhat shrubby, it deserves a place against a conservative wall, or on dry 

 rock work. 



fJouwirdia JocqulfA II. R. el Kunth Don's Mill., 3. p. 486.; B. triphylla Hort.; Houstc-mTz coc- 

 cinea Bot. Rep., 1. 106. ; is a native of Spain, growing to the height of 2 ft or 3 ft, with scarlet 

 tubular flowers, with a tube about 9 lines long, which appear from April to November. It is a most 

 desirable ibrub, tot turning out into beds and borders during the summer season, or for training 

 I rvative wall. There are two forms of it in British collections, one with leaves 

 much more pubeei ent (ban those of the other. 



Mantttia fUtbra Cham, et Scblect., Swt. PI. Gard., 2d ser., t 334. ; M. cordifblia Mart., Hook. Bot. 

 Mag., t 930%. Gard. Mag., ix. p. 107., and x. 238.; is an exceedingly elegant little twiner, with scarlet 

 tubular corollas, and broad deep .green leaves. It is a native of Buenos Ayrcs; and, Professor D. 

 ]><,■, observes, will doubtless lUCCeed well in the open border during summer. 



