perly so called, that is to say, from Bseckea virgata, the 

 original species, and whatever of the New Hollanders may 

 be found to agree with it. 



The distinction of this supposed Bseckea being thus as we 

 trust established, we beg to name it in compliment to Charles 

 Babington, Esq. F. L.S. of St. John's College, Cambridge, a 

 most zealous and skilful Botanist. 



It is a greenhouse shrub, very graceful in its habit, and 

 not difficult to cultivate. It does not seem to like a loamy 

 soil, but grows well in rich brown peat and leaf-mould, and 

 flowers freely during the summer from the ends of its pendent 

 branches. Cuttings of the young wood, a little firm at the 

 base, root very soon in sand when covered with a bell-glass in 

 the usual way. It can be propagated any time from spring 

 to autumn. 



Mrs. Molloy, a lady to whom we are greatly indebted for 

 seeds from the Vasse River, says, that it grows there in 

 swampy land, resembling our Spiraea frutex (Spiraea hyperi- 

 coides), that it grows seven or eight feet high, and in summer 

 forms a delightful shade to the traveller crossing the swamps. 



It was first flowered by Mrs. Wray of Cheltenham, as we 

 have already stated at no. 140 of the miscellaneous matter 

 for 1841. 



