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25. BUDDLEA Liiidleyana. 



Fortune in litteris. 



B. Lindleyana; glabra, fruticosa, foliis ovatis acuminatis serratis, racemia 



verticillatim spicatis tomeutosis, calycis dentibus brevibus triangularibus, 

 corollee tubo elongate infra medium ventricoso laciuiis obtusis. 



Seeds of this shrub, found by Mr. Fortune in Chusan, 

 have been sent by him to the Horticultural Society, in whose 

 garden they have been raised. He describes it as a handsome 

 small bush, and, from a coloured figure which he has sent 

 home, it appears to merit the description. Its flowers are in 

 close terminal racemes, about two inches long, and are them- 

 selves nearly three-quarters of an inch in length. Their 

 colour is a rich violet or lilac. This plant aflFords a strikino- 

 illustration of the rapid communication that now exists be- 

 tween England and the East. Its seeds were put into the 

 post in Chusan on the 13th November, 1843, and on the 

 4th March, 1844, they were actually growing in the garden 

 of the Horticultural Society, 



26. STENOMESSON aurantiacum. 



Herbert Amaryll. 198. 



This pretty bulbous plant has been raised in the garden of 

 the Horticultural Society, where it was sent by Mr. Hartweg, 

 who found it by the road from the Hacienda del Isco, on the 

 ascent to Antisana, at an elevation of 11,000 feet above the 

 sea. It has pretty drooping orange- coloured flowers, and 

 narrow leaves with the edge remarkably rolled back. It will 

 certainly be easy to grow in a greenhouse, if not hardy. 



27. CRYPTANDRA suavis. 



C. suavis ; pilosa, foliis obovato-linearibus, floribus in ramulos laterales axil- 



laribus glabris, calycis tubo cylindraceo. 



A pretty little greenhouse Swan River bush, raised by 

 Mrs. Wray from seeds. It has small foliage like a broad- 

 leaved heath, and minute white flowers appearing in profusion 

 from the little side branches. It is as fragrant as Hawthorn, 

 and therefore worth cultivation. 



