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 58. JASMINUM subulatum. 



J. stibulatum ; foliis alternis ternatis glabris : foliolis ovalibus acutis, floiibus 

 paniculatis, sepalis subulatis, corollae (lutese) limbo quinquepartito : 

 laciniis ovatis. 



A Chinese shrub, for specimens of which I am indebted 

 to the Hon. W. F. Strangways, who raised it in his garden 

 at Abbotsbury. It is very like J. paniculatum, but has yellow 

 flowers, and must be a pretty shrub ; greenhouse no doubt. 



59. ACHIMENES grandiflora. 



DeCand. Prodi', vii. 5SQ. 



This is probably as fine a species as A. longiflora. A 

 plant of it received from M. von Houtte, nurseryman at Ghent, 

 by the Horticultural Society, has Elm-like leaves, covered 

 with coarse hairs, ovate-oblong, serrated, larger on one side 

 than the other, deep green above, and stained on the under- 

 side with blood-red veins. The flowers are of a rich violet 

 purple, remarkably handsome, on a stalk as long as the 

 petioles of the leaves. At the base they are very much saccate ; 

 the eye is white ; and the tube is delicately powdered inside 

 with purple. The whole length of the corolla is two inches ; 

 but it will probably be much larger. It appears to have re- 

 ceived in Belgium the barbarous name of Achimenes Ghies- 

 brechtianum ; we really must congratulate ourselves that the 

 prior publication of a name by M. DeCandolle, has spared us 

 this infliction. 



60. SOLANUM concavum. 



S. concavum; caule scandente, foliis oblongo-linearibus obtusis concavis gla- 

 bris margine levissim^ repandis, paiiiculis cymosis multifloris, calyce 

 quinquedentato camiianulato, antheris sequalibus. 



A handsome greenhouse climber, raised seven years since 

 at Spoffbrth, where it is now fourteen feet high in the conser- 

 vatory and loaded with blossom. It has narrow concave 

 dark-green leaves, in form not unlike those of S. pseudo- 

 capsicum ; and panicles of violet flowers. It is a native of 

 Chili, whence it was brought by Mr. Cuming, of whose col- 

 lection it is no. 263. 



