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green, and very lucid, without a trace of hairs, wliilc the 

 upper leaves, and indeed all except the lowermost, are wedge- 

 shaped, 3-lobed, ohtuse and serrated ; with the base, wliich is 

 cordate, quite entire. The flowers are a rich deep purple. 

 It will make a good annual for shrubberies and roughly 

 kept places. 



131. LEPTODERMI^i lanceolata. Wallich in Roxb. fl. Iiul. 2. 191. 

 DeCand. prodr, iv. 46"2. 



This })lant proves to be a small shrub, with ovate bright 

 green strongly feather-veined leaves, and pale yellow flowers, 

 tinged wath purple ; it is something like a cream-coloured 

 Bouvardia. In the garden of the Horticultural Society it 

 seems nearly, if not quite, hardy. 



132. SOLLYA linearis; folils glaberrimis linearibus et linearl-lanceolatis ob- 

 tusiusculis, cymis multifloris nutantibus glabris, fructibus oblongis. 



This third species of the beautiful genus Sollya has been 

 lately added to our collections by Robert Mangles, Esq. of 

 Sunning-hill. The specimens which have as yet flowered 

 are weak, and by no means what it may be expected that 

 they will become. In wild specimens before me, for 

 which I am indebted to Mr. Toward, gardener to H. R. H. 

 the Duchess of Gloucester, I see as many as 1 1 flowers in a 

 cluster, and a single branch has 5 such clusters. The flowers 

 are of the deepest and richest blue. This plant diff'ers from 

 S. heterophylla in having its leaves linear, or at the most 

 linear-lanceolate, without any trace of toothings upon their 

 margin ; the stigma is less distinctly two-lobed, and the fruit 

 is much shorter and thicker, so as to have an oblong instead 

 of a narrow terete figure. It is much to be desired that 

 Sollya angustifolia, the JBillardiera fusiformis of Labillar- 

 diere, should be procured for our gardens ; it is said to be 

 found in Van Diemen's Land, and to have hairy leaves, dis- 

 tinctly veined, and large blue flowers. 



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133. HOTEIA japoiilca. Morren ^ Decaisne Ann. sc. Ind ser. II. 317. t. 

 11. Spiraea barbata. Bot. Rey. ^2011. Astilbe rivularis. Don prodr. 



fi. nep. 210. 



At length an opportunity has arisen of examining ripe 

 seeds of this plant, which have been obtained from India by 

 Dr. Falconer, and I find that they have an abundance of 

 fleshy albumen, surrounding a straight cylindrical embryo 



i-1839. »i 



