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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM.

BART III.

little narrowed at the base, and almost equal there; above, deep green ; beneath, pale, yellowish;ami the veins, when seen under a lens, a little hairy. Indigenous to Caucasus, on the statementof Adams. {Willd. Sp. PL). Willdenow had seen a dried specimen with fruit. In llcem.et Schult.Syst., it is quoted from Poiret Encijcl. SuppL, that the teeth of the leaves arc usually large, and areunequal; and that the fruit is solitary, axillary, globose, and teddish, and borne upon a peduncleof the length of the petiole. It is noted that it is very remarkable that the author of the FloraTaurico-Caucosica (Bieberstein) has not mentioned this species in that work. (See under C. sinensisPers ., No. 4.)

i & 3. C. Tournefo'rt/J Lam. Tournefort ’s Celtis, or Nettle Tree.

Identification. Lain. Encycl., 4. p. 132.; Willd. Sp. Pi., 4. p. 994.; Bieb. FI. Taur. Cauc., 2. p. 44?).

Room, et Schult. Syst. Veg., 6. p. 306.; N. Du Ham. Arb., 2. p. 38.

Synonymes. C. orientalis minor, foliis minoribus et crassioribus, fructu flavo, Tourn. Cor., 42.,Jtin., 2. p. 425. t. 41.; C. orientalis Mill. Diet. , No. 3., but, according to the Nouveau Du Hamel, notof Lin., which is considered a half-hardy plant in Britain ; Micocoulicr du Levant, Micocoulierd’Orient, Fr. ; Morgenlandischer Zungelbaum, Ger.

Engravings. Tourn. Itin., t. 41.; and the plate of this tree in our last Volume.

Spec. Char., §c. Leaves, when adult, ovate, acute, unequal at the base,crenately serrate, roughish on the upper surface; when young, subcordateat the base. Fruit yellow, becoming brown. {Willd. Sp. PL, and Rcem. et |Schult. Syst. Teg.) A native of Armenia . ( Tournefort .) Leaves bhmtisli,rough on both surfaces, glossy. (Spreng. Syst. Veg.) Introduced in 1739,and flowering and fruiting at the same time as C. australis.

Description, §c. A shrub, or low tree, rarely exceeding 25 ft. in height, butgenerally forming a bush of only 10 ft. or 12 ft. high, with round glabrousbranches, covered with a brownish bark. Thepetioleof the leaf is very short;the disk is unequally dentated, somewhat heart-shaped, and glabrous ; it is of adeep green above, and paler beneath, and is of a thicker texture than that of j

Celtis australis. The fruit, which is solitary, and borne on a long peduncle, is i

oval, greenish at first, then becoming yellowish, and afterwards nearly black, jFrom the specimens in the London Horticultural Society’s Garden, the fruitdoes not appear to ripen so soon as that of C. occidentalis ; as, in October, 1836,the fruit of C. Tournefortii was quite firm and green, while that of C. occi-dentalis was shriveled, blackish, and extremely sweet. C. Tournefortii is anative of the Levant; from which country Tournefort brought the seeds tothe Jardin des Plantes , in Paris , about 1717, whence plants have been dis-tributed all over F.urope. It was introduced into England in 1739. It israther more tender than C. australis and C. occidentalis. The seeds shouldbe sown in autumn, as soon as they are ripe; as, if not sown till spring, theygenerally remain a year or more in the ground. They prefer a moist soil, and asheltered situation. This species is readily known from all others, in winter,by its forming a compact upright-branched bush, or low tree ; and, in summer,by the deep green and dense mass of its rigid-looking foliage. There areplants of it from 6 ft. to 8 ft. high, in the London Horticultural Society’s |Garden, and at Messrs. Loddiges’s.

J » 1, C. (T.) sine'nsis Pers. The China Celtis, or Nettle Tree. |

Identification. Pers. Syn., 1. p. 292.; Rcem. et Schult. Syst. Veg., 6. p. 306. (

Spec. Char., SfC. Leaves broad-ovate, obtuse, crenate, largish, glabrous; .veins prominent. Native in China . Cultivated in Cels’s garden. (Pen- 1Syn.) A low tree, growing to the height of from 12 ft. to 15 fi. The plantof this kind in the Horticultural Society’s Garden seems to differ very little,if at all, from C. Tournefortii.

i 5. C. Willdenov/t'nt Schultes. Willdenow ’s Celtis, or Nettle Tree. |

Identification. Rcem. et Schult. Syst. Veg., 6. p. 306.

Synonyme. C. sinensis Willd. Enum. SuppL, y. 68., Willd. Bdumz., p. 81.

Spec. Char., fyc. Leaves ovate, oblong, acuminate, narrowed to the base, serrate from the ;

to the tip; above, glabrous; beneath, roughish. Schultes has quoted Willd. Baumz., ]>• .

this specific character; and has added, that a young tree in the Berlin Royal Garden nas t .disk of its leaf 1| in. long, and the upper surface, as inspected through a lens, dotted; and thatkind is a native of China . In a supplement (published in 1813) to Willdenow ’s EnumerationPlants of the Berlin Royal Garden, is the following short description of C. sinensis Willd-, wtl ‘ ’though not essentially different from the above, is not quite the same Leaves obovate °‘" on & ^rated at the tip; glossy on the upper surface, slightly hairy on the under one. Schultes has nothat the specific character of C. sinensis Pers. clearly shows that kind to be distinct fro 1 ! 11 ’

sinensis Willd. ; and that, as C. sinensis Pers. was first published, it is necessary to apply