1S73 ] CTATHEA BURKEI. — PHILADELPHUS PEIMULiEFLOBUS, 181 



spreading, with narrow petals, often more numerous than usual, thus showing a 

 tendency to duplicature, of a lively rose, each marked at the tip exteriorly with 

 a deeper spot. 



Amygdalns nana campanuloides, so named from its numerous flowers being 

 much more expanded than those of the type, so as to acquire a kind of bell- 

 shaped form, presents little difference of habit, but it forms nevertheless one of 

 the prettiest of shrubs at the time of flowering, since it seems to disappear under 

 the quantity of its pale fleshy-rose-coloured flowers. In this case, the leaves are long, 

 narrowly lanceolate, with rather fine toothing. Tho multiplication of these two 

 plants is effected by means of suckers, which are produced abundantly ; these 

 should be separated and planted in the autumn, for if this work is deferred till 

 spring, the plants scarcely push forth at all the first year. — T. M. 



CYATHEA BURKEI. 



WITH AN ILLUSTRATION. 



f^f REE Ferns are amongst tho most effective of ornamental plants, so that 

 Vvx]) any addition to the hardier set of them, requiring only the temperature 

 of a greenhouse, is specially welcome. From this point of view, Cyathea 

 Burkei — of which we now give an illustration, from a fine specimen 

 imported by Mr. Bull, of Chelsea, from Natal — may be regarded as a most import- 

 ant acquisition, for independently of the natural gracefulness of form manifested 

 in its ample fronds, they have naturally a drooping habit, which adds very 

 greatly to the elegance and beauty of the tree. This seems to be a characteristic 

 peculiarity of C. Burkei, for it is not confined to a single specimen ; and in this 

 respect the plant is far more desirable than the allied C. Dvegei, imported at the 

 same time, the fronds of which are more rigid. 



As will be seen from our figure, the plant has a stoutish trunk, which in the 

 imported specimens varies from about 7 ft. to 10 ft. in height. The fronds are 

 bipinnate, with a dark-coloured tubercled stipe, bearing at the base lance-shaped 

 chaffy scales ; they are membranaceous in texture, drooping, with lanceolate, 

 bluntly acuminate, bipinnatifid pinnules, the segments of which are oblong- 

 ovate, obtuse, and entire. The sori are few. 



Both this and Cyathea Dregei (which latter, according to Drege, its discoverei-, 

 forms a trunk of only 3 ft. to 4 ft. high) are fine additions to the group to which 

 they belong, since, being natives of South Africa, they will only require the 

 temperature of a greenhouse. The pendent fronds of C. Burkei give it a 

 particularly pleasing appearance. — T. Mooee. 



PHILADELPHUS PRIMUL^FLORUS. 



E are enabled to publish the accompanying figure of a pretty hardy shrub 

 through the courtesy of the publishers of the Revue Horticole, whence also 

 the following particulars are gleaned : — Philadelphus prinmlcEjlorus is 

 the issue of the common Syringa, P. coronarius. The name given to it 



