. 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. XI,. CAPRIFOLIACEiE : iEYCESTE^R/y/. 543 ments d^use'-v *)earf]ed inside. Style and stamens a little exserted. (Son's Mi!l.) A dense shrub, bearing a close resemblance to S. racemosus. Bri- tish North America, in the woody country between lat. 54° and 64°. Height â i ft. to 6 ft. Intro
. 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. XI,. CAPRIFOLIACEiE : iEYCESTE^R/y/. 543 ments d^use'-v *)earf]ed inside. Style and stamens a little exserted. (Son's Mi!l.) A dense shrub, bearing a close resemblance to S. racemosus. Bri- tish North America, in the woody country between lat. 54° and 64°. Height â i ft. to 6 ft. Introduced ?. Flowers pinkish ; July to September. Fruit white ; October, and remaining on during the winter. Distinguished from S. racemosus by the larger, less glaucous, more rigid, and denser foliage, and by the flowers being arranged in dense drooping spikes, longer than in S. racemosus, and by the prominent style and stamens. Genus VI. J LEYCESTE^R/^ Wall. The Leycesteeia. Monogynia. Lin. Syst. Pentandrid Idemification. Wall, in Roxb. Fl. Ind., 2. p. 181.; Dec. Prod., i. p. 338.; Don's Mill., 3. p. 451. Derivation, Named by Dr. Wallich after his friend William heycester, formerly chief judge of the principal native court under the Beugal Presidency ; " who during a long series of years, and in various parts of Hindoostan, has pursued every branch of horticulture with a munificence, zeal, and success, which abundantly entitle him to that ; Gen. Char. Calyx with an ovate tube, and an unequal, 5-parted, per- manent limb. Segments unequal, small, linear, glandularly ciliated. Co- rolla funnel-shaped; having the tube gibbous above the base, and the limb campanulate, and divided into 5 ovate nearly equal lobes. Stamens 5. Stigma capi- tate. Berry roundish, 5-celled. (Bon's Mill.) Leaves simple, opposite, pulate, sub-evergreen ; ovate- lanceolate, acuminated, petiolate, smooth, entire, membranous, glaucous, with an obtuse sub- cordate base. Petioles
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