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green, and very lucid, without a trace of hairs, while the 
upper leaves, and indeed all except the lowermost, are wedge- 
- shaped, 3-lobed, obtuse and serrated ; with the base, which is 
cordate, quite entire. The flowers are a rich deep purple. 
It will make a good annual for shrubberies and roughly 
kept places. 
131. LEPTODERMIS lanceolata. Wallich in Roxb. f. Ind. 2. 191. 
DeCand. prodr. iv. 462. 
This plant proves to be a small shrub, with ovate bright 
green strongly feather-veined leaves, and pale yellow flowers, 
tinged with purple; it is something like a cream-coloured 
Bouvardia. In the garden of the Horticultural Society it 
seems nearly, if not quite, hardy. 
132. SOLLYA linearis ; foliis glaberrimis linearibus et lineari-lanceolatis ob- 
tusiusculis, cymis multifloris nutantibus glabris, fructibus oblongis, 
This third species’ of the beautiful genus Sollya has been 
lately added to our collections by Robert Mangles, Esq. of 
Sunning-hill. The specimens which have as yet flowered 
are weak, and by no means what it may be expected that 
they will become. In wild specimens before me, for 
which I am indebted to Mr. Toward, gardener to H.R. H. 
the Duchess of Gloucester, 1 see as many as 11 flowers in a 
cluster, and a single branch has 5 such clusters. The flowers 
are of the deepest and richest blue. This plant differs from 
S. heterophylla in having its leaves linear, or at the most 
linear-lanceolate, without any trace of toothings upon their 
margin ; the stigma is less distinctly two-lobed, and the fruit 
is much shorter and thicker, so as to have an oblong instead 
of a narrow terete figure. It is much to be desired that 
Sollya angustifolia, the Billardiera fusiformis of Labillar- 
diére, should be procured for our gardens; it is said to be 
found in Van Diemen's Land, and to have hairy leaves, dis- 
tinctly veined, and large blue flowers. 
133, HOTEIA japonica. Morren & Decaisne Ann. sc. 2nd ser. IT. 317. t. 
11. Spiræa barbata. Bot. Reg. t. 2011. Astilbe rivularis. Don prodr. 
A. nep. 210. 
At length an opportunity has arisen of examining ripe 
seeds of this plant, which have been obtained from India by 
Dr. Falconer, and I find that they have an abundance of 
fleshy albumen, surrounding a straight cylindrical embryo 
L—1839. m 
