Class. 
D1CECIA. 
GAR'RYA ELLIP'TICA. 
ELLIPTIC-LEAVED GARRYA. 
Order. 
TETRANDRtA. 
Natural Order. 
GARRYACEJE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Habit. 
Introduced 
California. 
6 feet. 
October. 
Shrub. 
in 1828. 
No. 845. 
This new genus of plants, when discovered by 
Douglas, in California, was named by him in 
honour of Nicholas Garry, Esip, Secretary to the 
Hudson’s Bay Company. 
It is a hardy evergreen shrub, which will be 
received with much pleasure into British gardens 
and shrubberies, as a companion to the Laurusti- 
nus, the Arbutus, and others of similar character. 
By botanists it has been regarded as an interesting 
addition to our Exotic Flora; forming, as it does, a 
distinct natural order — a link between Cupuliferae 
and Conifer®. It will be observed that our figure 
is of the male plant, this only having yet been 
discovered. 
When sent home, by Douglas, it was the only 
Garrya known ; but, since that time, Mr. Hartweg, 
the London Horticultural Society’s collector, has 
transmitted seeds of another species — the Garrya 
laurifolia, which is considered a handsomer plant 
than elliptica. Mr. Hartweg’s seeds were dis- 
tributed amongst the fellows of the society, and, 
ere long, we hope to have a specimen of the plant 
for publication. Mr. Hartweg has discovered other 
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