OF GARDENING. 
Sept Leucadendros; and adds, Foliis fetaceis femitrifidis. 
——— Leucadendros, with fetaceous Leaves imper- 
feftly divided into three Parts. 
It is a fmall Shrub, branched, and naturally 
Spreading. 
The Root is divided into many Parts and 
hung with Fibres. 
The Stetn is firm, brown, and upright. The 
young Shoots are tinged with red. 
The Leaves are very numerous and fine; 
they are {mall, and of a pale green, and afe 
divided into almoft capillary Segments, whofe 
natural Termination is in three Points. 
The Flowers are collected into fmall Heads at 
the Extremities of all the Branches. They ftand 
in great Numbers in a common Cup; the Scales 
of which are unequal in Size, and lie lootely 
one upon another. 
Each Flower is compofed of two Petals, and 
is oblong, and has a downy AfpeCt on the 
outide. The upper Petal has a long narrow 
Bafe; and in the upper Part is lanceolate and 
undivided; in the lower Part this is clofely 
united to the under Petal. This lower Petal 
has alfo a long Bafe, but it is three Times as 
broad as in the upper; and the Verge is ob- 
long, femicylindrick, and cut at the Ends into 
three Segments: this is the very fingular Struc- 
ture of this Flower. 
The Filaments are four; they are very fhort, 
of a tubulated Form, and are inferted within 
the Segments. 
The Buttons or Antherz anfwer to the eft 3 in. 
the Peculiarity of their Shape and Conftruction. 
Each of thefe is properly compofed of four, 
which unite into a cylindrick Form. 
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of a Seed which is fomewhat long; and when 
“"s remains naked in the Cup. 
he four Filaments and fingle Style thew this 
to be one of the Tetrandria Monogynia of Lin- 
Neus, the fourth Clafs in that Author's. 
Syftem, and its firft Section. 
Sept. 
Culture of this LaeucaDENDRON:. 
It is a Native of the Cape of Good Hope; 
where it lives beft in a dry loofe fandy Soil, and. 
fpreads into a vaft Shrub with cluftered Branches. 
With us it requires the Heat of a Bark-bed to 
raife it from Seed, which is the belt Method,, 
and afterwards the Winter Shelter of a Green- 
houfe. 
The Seeds of this thould be procured as frefh 
as poffible from the Cape, and in Spring fown © 
upon fome of the light and not too rich 
Compofts in a Pot. The Seeds require to be 
juft covered with Mould, and the Pot is then 
to be fet up to the Rim in Bark. 
- When the Earth grows dry it mutt be lightly 
refrefhed with Water 5 and when the Plants are 
two Inches high, they muft be tranfplanted 
each into a feparate fmall Pot of the fame Com- 
poft. In this they muft be fet again in the 
Bark-bed, and fheltered with Mats from the 
Noon-day Sun till well rooted ; refrefhing them 
often with Water. . | 
When they are well rooted; the Air muft be 
admitted to them by Degrees; and when they 
are able to bear it, they muft be brought out 
among the Greenhoufe Plants; and taken into | 
the wanmiett Part of that Building in the Be- 
sinning of Autumn; managing them in all 
: ‘The Style is extremely long, and is crowned | Refpeéts as Greenhoufe Plants: pes 
a with a fimple Head. It rifes from the Rudiment t | ee | 
citer Miheds de TGs AR: BA 
: Hie. America, which like Africa to the Antients, is | cov rered as it were with a light Down. This is 
Fig. 7, continually affording us fomething new in Bo- 
tany, has not at any Time thewn a more pe- 
culiar Shrub than this: a Vegetable of the 
woody Kind with the Afpect of a verticillate | 
Plant; and with Berries for the Fruit. The 
Botanift could fcarce form in his own Mind a 
ftranger Combination. 
In naming America for its Country, we ex- 
clude the eatlier Writers from any Know- 
‘ledge of the Plant. Of late Time many have 
defcribed it, but till Linn us none named it 
properly. Caressy calls it Frutex baccifer ver- 
ticillatus foiiis fcabris latis dentatis é3 conjugatis : 
a verticillate Berry-bearing Shrub, with broad 
rough rugged Leaves placed in Pairs. This 
may be received as a fhort Defcription, but 
could not be admitted as a Name. Gro- 
' wovius in the fame Manner calls it. indeter- 
adverfo binis viminibus lentis inprmis quaf leno | 
canitie teflis : a Shrub with large roundifh pointed 
oppofite Leaves, and with rough weak Twigs, 
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minately, Frutex foliis fubrotundis acuminatis, ex 
alfo a Defcription put in the Place of a Name, 
but the Particulars are ill chofen, and the long 
Plrafe lefs expreffive than that of Caruszy. 
PLukENeET calls it Avonymos baccifera verticillata 
folio molli 8 incano ex America: a namelefs Ame- 
rican verticillate Berry- bearing Shrub, with foft 
/ woolly Leavés. With fuch Names was the 
World content, till that Improver of the Sci- 
encté ftarted the true Method. Dr. MITcHEL, 
after this, called ic Sphondylococcos ; and laft of 
all Linn evs, Callicarpa: to this, as there is 
no other known Species, he adds no Epithet 
of Diftinction. | 
It is a Shrub of irregular Growth, 
The Root penetrates deep into the Earth ; 
the Stém is covered. with a brown Bark; and 
the Branches, which are very numerous, are 
of a pale olive Colour. Thefe fpread va- 
rioufly and irregularly, and the whole has a 
pleafing Afpect. 3 
The young Shoots .are long, 
delicate, But not biirtle: 
tender, end 
They threw them- 
ielves 
