72 



viridis, hooded, undivided, and of a dull greenish colour tinged 

 with dull purple. The column too, has in like manner lost 

 its cirrhi, has shortened, and its lengthened beak has also 

 disappeared. 



158. OPHELIA pm-purascens. Don in Edinb. Philos. Mag. 1836. Jan. 



A pretty little herbaceous plant, with narrow pale green 

 leaves, and starry pink flowers with green glands at the base 

 of the petals. It is a native of the northern parts of India, 

 and has been recently raised by the Horticultural Society from 

 the important distributions of the East India Company. It 

 may be expected to prove hardy, but will probably be only 

 annual. 



159. SPIR^A rofMndifolm. 



Among a collection of seeds from Cashmere, collected by 

 Dr. Falconer, and presented by the Court of Directors of the 

 East India Company to the Horticultural Society, was this, 

 which, although it has not yet flowered, is evidently a new 

 species of the hardy genus Spiraea, belonging to the same di- 

 vision as >S'. vacciniifolia. It has slender, angular, downy 

 shoots, and roundish oblong blunt leaves crenated at the 

 upper end above the middle, but entire on the lower half; 

 they measure on an average seven lines in length and six in 

 breadth ; their petiole is about a line long, and downy. I 

 cannot find such a plant described any where, and it is un- 

 questionably new to our gardens. 



160. QUERCUS acutifolia. Humb. & Bonpl. pi. eequin. 2. 55. t. 95. 



161. reticufata. Id. lb. 2. 40. t. 86. 



162. 



163. 



164. 



165. 



166. - 



167. lancifolia. Cham. & Scblecht. Linn. 5. 78. 



168. petiolaris. Benth. plant. Hartweg. no. 420. 



All the foregoing are Mexican oaks, recently raised in the 



