. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. LXXII. PLATANACE^: PLA TANUS. 927 Flowers in both sexes solitary, opposite, ses- sile ; one seated in every bract, and shorter. (Bentk.) An evergreen shrub, or low tree. Mexico, on mountains. Height 15 ft. to 18 ft., and in some places with a trunk 2 ft. in di- ameter. Introduced in 1839
. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. LXXII. PLATANACE^: PLA TANUS. 927 Flowers in both sexes solitary, opposite, ses- sile ; one seated in every bract, and shorter. (Bentk.) An evergreen shrub, or low tree. Mexico, on mountains. Height 15 ft. to 18 ft., and in some places with a trunk 2 ft. in di- ameter. Introduced in 1839. Only one plant of this very desirable evergreen has been raised in the Horticultural Society's Garden. Other Species of Gdnya. — G. Lind'eyi, con- sidered by Mr. Bentham as a variety of G /aurifolia ; G. macrophylla, with round leaves, resembling those of the common wayfaring tree ; G. oblonga, with very small leaves, very much resembling the smallest leaves on the Quercus /Hex ; and G. ovata, with small round leaves, about the size of those of the common plum, are described in Bentham's Plantts Hartwegiance, from specimens collected by M. Hartweg in different parts of 1731. G. faurlf61is. Order LXXII. PLATANA^CEiE. Orb. Char. Flowers unisexual, collected into globose or oblong cat- kins of different sexes, involucrated or naked.—Male flower having the perianth composed of numerous small linear pieces, intermixed with the stamen.—Female flower with the scales absent, or intermixed with the flowers ; perianth adhering to the ovarium, cup-shaped, or ending in small pilose bristles. Carpels 1 or 2, 1-celled, horned at apex, coriaceous. Seeds solitary in the cells, pendulous. Albumen none. ((?. i)on.) Leaves simple, alternate, stipulate, deciduous; palmate. Flowers in glo- bular catkins. — Lofty deciduous trees, with widely spreading branches, dense foliage, and bark scaling off in hard irregular patches. Natives of the East of Europe, West of Asia, and North of
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