MALACHODEN'DRON OVA'TUM 
OVATE SfALACHODENDRON. 
Class. 
MONADELPHIA. 
Order. 
POLYANDRIA . 
Natural Order. 
ternstrcemiacea:. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Habit. 
Introduced 
N.America 
9 feet. 
Aug. Sept. 
A tree. 
in 1785. 
No. 1015. 
The word, Malachodendron, although it has, at 
first sight, a somewhat forbidding appearance, is 
neither difficult nor harsh in pronunciation. Like 
others of its class, compounded from the Greek 
language, it is intended to carry information, being 
derived from malakos, soft ; and dendron, a tree. 
On the mountains of Carolina and Georgia this 
shmb makes a noble appearance, but with us it is 
less luxuriant; indeed its habit indicates that it 
was intended for a somewhat different climate. It 
grows freely in summer, and attains a handsome 
size, but it usually happens that the winter nips 
a certain portion of the summer’s produce ; not on 
account of the severity of the former, but from the 
inefficiency of the latter to thoroughly ripen the 
tender shoots. The summer of 1844 being dry 
and warm, its young wood was well ripened in the 
open garden of the Birmingham Horticultural 
Society, and in 1845 a luxuriant blossom was the 
consequence. 
From the handsome character of this shmb it 
well deseiwes a wall, which would afford it all the 
advantage required. Peat is the soil it prefers. 
