irregularly notched, smooth, glaucous. Flowers grow on the 

 slender, terminal branches in pairs, at first distant, but 

 toward the extremities crowded together, supported on very 

 short pedicles; sometimes the branch becomes leafy beyond 

 the flowers. Calyx superior 5-toothed, as it often, if not 

 generally, is in S. conglomerata, though described to be 

 4-toothed. Corolla rose-coloured, campanulate; limb 5-cleft, 

 obtuse: faux filled with hairs, below which the tube abounds 

 with honey. Stamens 5, inserted at the upper part of the 

 tube, shorter than the corolla with the laciniae of which they 

 alternate. Germen ovate, with two or three small bractes 

 applied close to its base. Mr. Brown has observed that it is 

 four-celled, 2 of the cells bearing each several ovula, but 

 which are always abortive; the other two have each a single 

 seed, which alone come to maturity. An analogous circum- 

 stance takes place, he observes, also in the fruit of LinnjEA, 

 and of Abelia, two nearly related genera belonging to the 

 same family, the caprifoliace<E ; in both which the germen is 

 3-celled, two of the cells having several imperfect ovula, and 

 the other a single ovulum, which alone comes to maturity.* 



The mature berry of Symphoria racemosa appears to be 

 only 2-celled, the expansion of the fertile cells obliterating 

 the others. Each cell contains a kidney-shaped seed, much 

 smaller than the cavity containing it. 



Native of Upper Canada, and the banks of the Missouri. 

 Flowers in July, August and September, succeeded by large 

 snow-white berries, which hang till the approach of winter 

 It is perfectly hardy. Communicated in July last by Messrs. 

 Whitley, Brame and Milne, of the Fulham Nursery. 



• U ide J*" 5 "*?" and descriptions of three new species of plants, found 

 m China, by Clarke Abel, Esq. by Robert Brown, F. R. S. 



