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gles, Esq. of Sunning Hill, from seed imported by Captain 

 James Mangles, R.N. It has a rather glaucous rigid 

 foliage, deeply divided into three lobes, which are themselves 

 3-cleftor 5-cleft, and spiny pointed. The flowers are reddish 

 purple, in cones surrounded by the leaves at the end of the 

 branches. The species is not uncommon in collections, but 

 I have not before heard of its flowering. It is allied to the 

 yellow I. anemonifolius . 



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38. CYTlStJS Weldenii. 



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This plant has already been mentioned at no. 122 of the 

 miscellaneous matter for 1839. It is now in flower in the 

 Garden of the Horticultural Society, and proves to be very 

 different from the Scotch Laburnum, notwithstanding its 

 foliage, which much resembles that species. Its flowers are 

 sweet-scented, growing three or four together in an upright, 

 not drooping cluster. It is a small tree, from the mountains 

 of Dalmatia, hardy, and worth adding to the collections of 

 Trees and Shrubs. The poisonous qualities of Laburnum 

 seeds is said to be much concentrated in this plant, " and the 

 scent of the flowers produces headache. The milk of the 

 goats which feed upon the flowers, Baron Welden observes, 

 produces the same effect, only more severely, upon those who 

 drink it." Loudon s Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum 

 abridged, p. 218. fig. 343. 



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39. CANDOLLEA tetrandra. 



C. tetrandra ; ramis junioribus pilosis, foliis oblongis convexis dentatis basi 

 angustatis integerrimis, floribus solitariis inter folia sessilibus petalis obo- 

 vatis planis emarginatis sepalis mucronatis glabris multd longioribus, 

 phalangibus tetrandris. 



This plant has been mistaken in the Gardens for a variety 

 of Candollea cuneiformis ; it is however a different and far 



handsomer species. The leaves are fully two inches long 



and broad in proportion, and coarsely toothed. The 

 flowers are four times as large, much like those of Hibbertia 

 volubilis, paler yellow, and with the petals, which are flat, 

 not crumpled, considerably larger than the calyx. Moreover 

 the stamens are regularly arranged in bundles of four each 









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