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into the tube of the corolla, at the mouth of the calyx ; filaments short 

 anthers brown, sagittate. Germen ovate, green ; style short, reaching to 

 the mouth of the calyx ; stigma large, rounded, greenish, placed on the 

 anterior part of the style, which projects a little way beyond it. Drupe 

 round, deep purple, juicy ; nut bilocular. 



The leaves, when bruised, emit a smell considerably resembling the dry 

 root of Valeriana officinalis. 



This species is a native of Mexico, from whence the seeds were brought by 

 Lord Napier in 1J>25, and obligingly communicated to the Botanic Gar- 

 den. They, and the seeds of many other species, some of them entirely 

 new, were picked by his Lordship from plants in the wild state, among 

 the mountains of Arizaba, or Real del Monte. It is much to be de- 

 sired that others of our countrymen would equally profit by the op- 

 portunities afforded them, of contributing to our knowledge of exotic bo- 

 tany. 



Metrosideros lanceolata. 



This plant has stood on the open wall for three winters, partially protected 

 with broom twigs. 



Monarda punctata. 



Passiflora capsularis. 



Patersonia glauca. 



Pilea mucosa. 



This curious little plant, so well illustrated in the Collectanea Botanica of 

 Lindley, has for several years flourished in our stove ; but I have not 

 observed it frequently in collections. 



Ruellia anisophylla. 



Silene regia. 



This fine plant was sent, while in flower, from Mr Ferguson's of Raith, 

 whose gardener raised it from seed sent from Montreal. 



Vanda rostrata. 



It would be interesting to know, whether any remarkable de- 

 viation from the usual progress of vegetation has been observed, 

 in consequence of the very uncommon degree of heat, and un- 

 interrupted drought, of this season. Nothing easily accounted 

 for by reference to these, has been noticed in the Botanic Gar- 

 den, except the period of flowering in the Crataegus glabra. I 

 have often observed, that, in different seasons, certain plants 

 flower much before, or not till long after, their usual period, 

 when the state of the weather would have led us to expect the 

 very reverse. This season, the hairy-leaved Laurus Tinus will 

 not be in flower till towards the end of January : two years ago, 

 after a very inferior season, it was in full flower during Decem- 

 ber. The Arbutus Andrachne, and laurel-leaved variety of Ar^ 

 butus Unedo, nailed to a wall with a south exposure, are consi- 

 derably later than plants propagated from the same stock, and 

 growing as standards, though the soil where they are placed is 

 equally loose and dry. The tender plants in our borders seem 

 to have suffered less from the frost which we have had lately, than 

 they usually do, probably owing to the dryness of the soil ; for 

 the rains have yet penetrated but a Httle way below the surface. 



