Cneorum
(from Cneoron, a name given to some shrub resembling an Olive, by Hippocrates and Theophrastus). Widow-wail. ORD. Simarubeae. Very ornamental green-house or half-hardy evergreen sub-shrubs, with axillary yellow flowers and entire linear-oblong leaves. They thrive in a compost of peat and fibry loam, to which a little silver sand has been added. Ripened cuttings root freely, about April, in sand, under a bell glass. Cneorums succeed fairly well outside, in an open border, in the southern counties; but in more northern localities, they require the shelter of a south wall. The genus is confined to the Mediterranean region and the Canary Islands. It comprises but the two species here described.
C. pulverulentum (powdery).* fl. axillary; pedicels adnate to the base of the bracts. April to September. l. linear, entire. h. 1ft. to 3ft. Teneriffe, 1822. Plant covered with greyish powder.
C. tricoccum (three-berried). Spurge Olive. fl. axillary; pedicels not adnate to the bracts. h. 1ft. to 2ft. South Europe, 1793. Plant smooth.