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DUVAUA longifolia. 
Long -leaved Duvaua. 
POLYGAMIA MONCECIA. 
Nat. ord. Anacardiaceal. 
DUVAUA. Supra, vol. 19. fol. 1568. 
D. longifolia ; foliis lineari-oblongis basi angustatis integerrimis, corymbis 
sessilibus axillaribus, floribus 7-8-andris. 
The Duvauas are a race of evergreen shrubs, smelling of 
turpentine, with small green flowers, a caustic juice, and con- 
siderable affinity to Rhus. We have now in our gardens the 
following species, viz. D. dependens, ovata, latifolia , this 
longifolia , and another or two undescribed and insufficiently 
examined. They all inhabit the southern temperate regions 
of South America, and are capable of living with us in the 
open air through ordinary winters, especially if placed in a 
north-western exposure. 
The species now figured differs from D. dependens in its 
leaves not being at all serrated, and decidedly narrowed, not 
widened, to the base ; and also in having very short corymbs 
of flowers. With the others it is not necessary to compare it. 
It is much hardier than any of the others, having stood 
against an exposed wall in the hard winter, 1837-8, when all 
the others were either killed down to the ground or entirely 
destroyed. 
It grows freely in any good garden soil ; flowers in June 
or July ; and is increased by seeds, or by cuttings of the half- 
ripe wood taken off about August, and treated in the ordinary 
way. 
The plant from which our figure was taken was presented 
to the Horticultural Society some years ago by Mr. H. Low 
of Clapton, who raised it from seeds received from Buenos 
Ayres. 
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