NEW PLANTS. 



NEW PLANTS. 



ToRRETA Myristica. — California 

 Nutmeg. Kat. order, Conifer(R. Dioecia 

 Polyandria. 



A beautiful evergreen tree, thirty or 

 forty feet high, native of elevated re- 

 gions in the Sierra Nevada of Califor- 

 nia. The slightest glance at the in- 

 ternal structure of the fruit at once 

 identifies this tree with the Torreya of 

 the Southern United States, found only in 

 the Ashalaga and Apalachicola country 

 of middle Florida ; there has been 

 discovered the Torreya Taxifolia of Dr. 

 Arnott. On first aspect there is as 

 much difi"erence between them as there 

 is between the Cephalotaxus Fortuni 

 and the common Yew. The Cephalo- 

 taxus represents our California Nutmeg 

 with its large foliag3, and the common 

 Yew Torreya taxifolia ; in fact, the fo- 

 liage and fruit of Torreya myristica are 

 more than twice the size of T. taxifolia, 

 and thus the common observer will 

 never be at a loss to distinguish them. 

 Bot. Mag., tab. 4780. torreta myristica. 



Cereus Lemairii {Lemaire's Ccreus.) — This is a native, probably, of Antigua. It is 

 night-blooming and fragrant. Flower very large, being one foot long and nine inches 

 across. The petals are white, and calyx yellow. It requires a stove, and blooms in 

 June. [Botanical Magazine, t. 4814.) 



Ceanothus papillosus [Pim])led Ceanotlms.) — A hardy shrub from California, where 

 it was discovered by that martyr of Science, Mr. Douglas, but introduced into our gar- 

 dens by Messrs. Veitch, of Exeter and Chelsea Nurseries, who received it from Mr. W. 

 Lobb. It produces, in July, very numerous blue-petaled heads of flovsrers. It is a very 

 desirable garden plant. [Ibid. 4815.) 



Knipiiofia uvaria [Saw-edged-leaved Kniplwfia.) — Long but erroneously known as 

 Tritoma iivaria ; but it has had many other names, such as Tritomanthe, Aloe, Atetris, 

 and Veliheima. It is of the natural order oi Asp)hodels. The leaves thin and three feet 

 long, grow in thick tufts ; the flower-stems are about the same length, each crowned 

 with a dense, branched drooping spike of bright red flowers gradually becoming yellow. 



Although a native of the Cape of Good Hope, no plant can be more hardy, nor more 

 easily cultivated, and, assuredly, none more worthy of a place in every garden 

 blooms in August. [Ibid. 4816.) 



