120'. 



ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART III. 



affords a kind of 

 waxy matter. (Don's 

 Mil/., iv. p. 45.) A 

 trie, from 10ft. to 

 80 ft. high, a native 

 of China. It was in- 

 troduced in 1794, and 

 flowers profusely in 

 September and Oc- 

 tober. This species 

 forms a very hand- 

 some low subever- 

 green tree ; or, when 

 it is not trained to a 

 single stem, a large 

 showy bush. There 

 are good specimens 

 of it, as trees, be- 

 tween 10 ft. and 12 ft. 

 high, in the Fulham 

 and Brompton Nur- 

 series ; and, as shrubs, 

 in the Horticultural 

 Society's Garden, and 

 in Messrs. Loddiges's 

 arboretum. There is a remarkably fine specimen in the Duke of Marl- 

 borough's private garden at Blenheim ; and there are some, also, at White 

 Knights. It is propagated by layers, or by grafting 

 on the common privet. Price of plants, in the 

 London nurseries, from Is. to 1*. Qd. each. 



Variety. 



• t L. /. 2 floribundum Donald's Cat. has lai'ger 

 bunches of flowers than the species. 

 L. salicifdlkim. A plant to which this name might 



be suitable has been in the arboretum at Kew since 



1823. It was raised from a withe, which had been 



tied round a package of plants, received from the? 



Cape of Good Hope in that year, by Mr. Smith. 



It bears a close general resemblance to the common 



privet, but differs from it in having the leaves much 



larger, and the flowers in large compound spikes, 



like those of L. liicidum. The leaves, in form, 



colour, and texture, closely resemble those of the 



plants alluded to in the following appendix, as having 



been raised by Messrs. Loddiges from Kamaon seeds. 



The plant is quite hardy, and retains its foliage the 



greater part of the winter. It flowers freely every 



ripened seeds. 



year, 



i- 



1024 

 but has not yet 



A pp. i. Species of "Ldg&strum not yet introduced. 



<• Lour. Coch., I!)., Don's Mill., 4. p. 45., is a native of China, near Canton, with Ian- 

 ceotote, tomentOtt leaves, white flowers, and small brown berries. It grows to the height of 6 ft 



it \j.jfip6nicum Thunb, 1 I Jap., p. 17. t. 1. ; /,. latifblium Vltm. ; is a native of Japan, with oblong- 

 ovate, grooved leave , and white (lowers, growing to the height of 6 ft. or H ft. 



I [. /,////< cent Wall. Cat., \1V±., is a native of the I5nrme.se empire, with downy branches, and 

 md fruil in paniclet : the hemes are oblong. 



ji I /,, in h ■.!. i in, i I) Don Prod. II. Nep, 107. ; L. japoiiicnm HuniiU. ; /'hillyrea hrarteolata Herb 

 I. a, ,ih ; ha- the le;ves u\ ate-lanecolatc, the flowers disposed in bracteate panicles, and the peduneles 



!• . a native of Nepal. 



