Coriaria
(from corium, a hide; referring to the crustaceous covering of the fruit). ORD. Coriarieoe. Ornamental dwarf-growing suffruticose plants, natives of South Europe, North Africa, Japan, Himalayas, New Zealand and the Andes. Flowers green, small, hermaphrodite, or polygamous; sepals five, spreading, imbricate, persistent; petals smaller than the sepals, thickened after flowering, and embracing the fruit; stamens ten, hypogynous, free, or the alternate adnate to the petals; racemes axillary. Carpels five to ten. Leaves opposite, rarely ternately whorled, quite entire, sessile, exstipulate. Coriarias are of easy culture in common garden soil. Propagated by suckers or layers, put down in autumn. C. myrtifolia is the only hardy species; the two others mentioned do well in a conservatory or cool greenhouse. C. myrtifolia (Myrtle-leaved).* Myrtle-leaved Sumach; Tanners-tree. fl. greenish; racemes rather erect, terminating the branches and branchlets, leafy at the base. May to August. l. ovate-lanceolate, simple, opposite. Branches somewhat tetragonal, opposite or tern. h. 4ft. to 6ft. South Europe, 1629. C. nepalensis (Nepaulese). fl. brown. May. h. 10ft. Nepaul. C. sarmentosa (sarmentose). fl. green. June. h. 3ft. New Zealand, 1823. (B. M. 2470.)