112 Seward and Gowan .— The Maidenhair 
generic name on the ground that Smith’s reasons for the 
substitution of Salisburia were inadequate. Gouan describes 
a tree, received from Sir Joseph Banks, which had been 
growing for twenty-four years in his garden at Montpellier, 
where it bore male flowers in 1812; the author, in speaking 
of previous accounts of the Maidenhair tree, writes, ‘ plusieurs 
auteurs ont parle de cet arbre, la plupart n’ont repete que ce 
qui avait £te deja dit.’ In 1819 Jacquin 1 published an 
account of Ginkgo , illustrated by a coloured drawing of the 
leaves and male flowers; he mentions the production of 
seeds on a tree grown in Vienna. Watson 2 in 1825 also 
figured and described the leaves and male flowers, noting 
that a male plant flowered at Kew on May 8, 1824. In the 
following year Richard 3 published good drawings of both 
male and female flowers and placed Ginkgo among the 
Taxineae. In a pamphlet by Bunge 4 , who had been sent by 
the Russian Court to Pekin, Ginkgo is included in the Amen- 
taceae and spoken of as ‘ rarior in hortis et prope templa 
buddhaica . . . pulcherrima et procerissima arbor . . . talem 
arborem vetustissimam cujus historia usque ad tempora 
Dynastiae Juan refertur.’ A drawing of a deeply incised 
leaf is given by Lindley and Hutton 6 in their ‘Fossil Flora’ 
for comparison with Sphenophyllum , a Palaeozoic genus belong¬ 
ing to an extinct subdivision of the Pteridophytes. End- 
licher 6 follows Richard in the inclusion of Ginkgo among the 
Taxineae, and refers to the tree as indigenous in China and 
cultivated in Japan; he describes the leaves of the seedling 
as deeply cut, and notes the frequent occurrence of two or 
more embryos in one seed. 
A paper by Zuccarini 7 in 1840 marks an advance on 
previous accounts in the comparison instituted between 
Ginkgo and the South African Cycad Encephalartos horridus 
as regards the form of the young leaves. In addition to 
1 Jacquin (’ 19 ), p. 5. 2 Watson (’ 25 ), vol. ii, p. 168. 
s Richard (’ 26 ), p. 133. 4 Bunge (’ 31 ), p. 62. 
5 Lindley and Hutton (’ 33 ), vol. i, PI. XXVII. 
6 Endlicher (’ 36 ), p. 261 ; also (’ 47 ), p. 286. 
T Zuccarini (’ 40 ). 
