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The Japanese Wind Flotoer. 



NOTICES OF NEW PLANTS 



tain called Kissunc, near the city of Miako, in Japan. It grows also at considerable ele- 

 vations on the mountains in the centre of Japan, whence 

 Siebold concludes that it will bear the rigior of a con- 

 tinental winter. It is much cultivated by the Japanese 

 for its beautiful flowers. 



In the garden of the Horticultural Society, it has 

 hitherto been kept in a pot, in a cool green-house : this 

 was, however, on account of its scarcity, and for fear 

 of losing it; and such treatment is by no means expect- 

 ed to be required. It will grow freely in any rich, 

 light, loamy soil; and requires a considerable, rather 

 abundant supply of water. 



In the natural arrangement it ranks under Ranuncu- 

 laceas; and in the Linngean, under Polyandria poly- 

 gynia. — Jour. Hort. Soc. 



Abelia eupestris. — A small spreading bush, with 

 deciduous, bright green foliage. The branches are very 

 slender, covered with fine down, and deep reddish 

 brown, when fully exposed to the sun. The leaves are 

 opposite, ovate, distanth'' serrated, on very short stalks, 

 quite smooth except at the midrib on the underside, 

 where they are closely covered with short hairs. The 

 flowers are pure white, something like those from the 

 honeysuckle, and come in pairs from the axils of leaves belonging to the short lateral 

 branches. At the base of the ovary stand three very small bracts. The ovary itself is 

 slender and downy; surmounted by a calyx of five obovate ciliated sepals, which are 

 slightly stained rose color, and rather membraneous. The corolla when expanded is half 

 an inch long, funnel-shaped, downy, with a spreading border of five convex ovate blunt 

 equal lobes, beyond whose tube extend four smooth filaments. 



The plant is distinguishable from Abelia chinensis of Brown, by its want of involucre, 

 smooth leaves, and not trichotomous flowers; and from the Abelia serrata of Zuccarini 

 and Siebold, by its five leaved calyx. It has hitherto been treated as a greenhouse plant, 

 but will probabi}' prove hardy enough to stand out of doors in mild winters. The soil 

 which appears most suitable is rough sandy loam, mixed with a little peat. Being of free 

 growth, an ample supply of water is necessary during the summer season. In winter 

 nothing different from the general treatment of greenhouse plants is required. It is pro- 

 pagated from cuttings of young wood, in the usual way. From its being sweet-scented, 

 and the length of time it remains in flower, this will be of considerable importance as a 

 greenhouse plant; and, should it prove hardy, it will doubtless be a good addition to the 

 shrubbery in consequence of its flowering in autumn. Received from Mr, Fortune, June 

 20th, 1844, as a fine dwarf shrub, found amongst recks on the Chamoo Hills, China. — 

 Jour. Hort. Society. 



Indigofera decora. — A dark green handsome bush, with somewhat glaucous branches. 

 The leaves are pinnate in from two to five pairs and an odd one, quite smooth on the up- 

 per side, but slightly covered on the under side with very fine hairs, attached by their 

 middle; the leaflets are exactly ovate, with a short bristle at their end, between 1^ and 2 

 long, of a very dark green color; and to each pair there arc two short bristle 



pules. The flowers grow from the axils of the leaves in horizontal racemes much 



