Spiraea Grandiflora. — Large Flowered 

 Spirea. Nat. order Rosaceoe. — Icosandria 

 Pantacjnia. 



This remarkable plant was sent by Mr. 

 Fortune under the name of Amelanchier 

 Eacemosa, from the North of China ; and 

 it is certain that its conspicuous, large 

 flowers cannot fail to recommend it as a 

 very desirable, ornamental, and shrubbery 

 plant. The habit and foliage are that of a 

 an Amelancheir ; but the structure of the 

 flowers point to the Genus Spirsea. The 

 calyx-tube is remarkable in form, much 

 contracted below, then suddenly at the nar- 

 row faux expanded and recurved, and the 

 whole lined with a fleshy disc, at the end 

 of which the fifteen stamens are inserted 

 in threes. The species is extremely differ- 

 ent from any hitherto described. — Curtis's 

 Botanical Magazine. 



[This plant was slightly noticed in a 

 former number. — Ed.] 



The Big Tree, &c. :— At a late London exhibition Mr. Yeitch exhibited a good small 

 specimen of the great California tree to the adnuration of the amateurs. Also a clear 

 yellow, shining Rhododendron from Borneo, with leaves like an Oleander; and Emhoth- 

 rium coccineum, which is hardy, or nearly so, and the flowers of a crimson scarlet. A 

 Rhododendron Calif ornicum , more in the style of older kinds, and a Weigelia amahilis, a 

 far better flower than rosea. For his newly introduced plants, not in bloom, he had all 

 the prizes. Here were Lomatia feruginea, and Sonerila Margaretacea, AncBctochilus 

 Veichii, a Saraccnia, a new variety of Maranta rosea lineata, called elegans, and Aralia 

 papyrifera. 



The Messrs. Rollison had a most lovely new stove-plant, called, Meijcnia erecta ; the 

 accent is on the second e ; it was loaded with large Gloxinia-looking flowers, or rather 

 between that and the shape of a Maurandia flower, of soft blue-lilac colour, tinged with 

 purple, with a light bottom to the tube. The plant is a stifi" grower, with small oppo- 

 site leaves, like some old stove Jasmines. It belongs to the group of Thunbergias, and 

 was named after Meyen, a celebrated botanist, by Nees Von Esenbeck, the great author- 

 ity for Acanthads. 



Mr. Ayres, had a large specimen of a Blandfordia, with twelve upright spikes, loaded 

 with drooping, orange-yellow flowers, and Impatiens Jerdonice, Sonerila Margaretacea, 

 not in bloom, and Ilgdrolea azurea, with only one flower open. It is one of the finest 

 plants of that style in the Mexican Flora, and would have been the lion of the day if it 

 been covered with bloom, as all showy plants ought to be when they * come out.'; 

 same pains which dre taken with young ladies, for their first appearance at court, 



