108 A GARDEN FLORA 
LIBOCEDRUS. Coniferee. 
L. chilensis. Chile. 
Height 17 feet. A well furnished tree, planted 
in a sheltered corner of the Pinetum 1898. The 
tree looks in particularly good health, and, happily, 
has never suffered from frost here. 
L. decurrens. Incense Cedar. Oregon and California. 
Height 21 feet. Planted in the Pinetum 1898. 
*L. doniana. Chile. 
Height 3 feet. A tender shrub, 20 years old, 
which, though sustaining little injury from frost, 
grows but slowly in the open air. It has been given 
a fairly sheltered position near the Shrub Houses. 
fL. macrolepis. China. 
tL. sp. 
LIGUSTRUM. Privet. Oleaceae. 
L. coriaceum. Japan. 
The neatest of shrubs, with dark, shining leaves. 
It has not flowered yet, though 4 feet high and 
perfectly hardy. 
L. japonicum. Japanese Privet. N. China, Corea and 
Japan. 
L. lucidum. China. 
L. ovalifolium. Oval-leaved Privet. Japan. 
„ var. aureum. Golden Privet. 
L. sinense. Chinese Privet. China. 
L. vulgare. Common Privet. Europe, Britain. 
LILAC. See SYRINGA. 
LILTUM. Liliacese. 
L. candidum. S. Europe, etc. 
L. chalcedonicum. Greece. 
L. croceum. S. Europe. 
L. Henryi. China. 
L. sulphureum. Burma. 
L. testaceum. Garden origin. 
L. tigrinum. China and Japan. 
