58 NEW PLANTS, ETC., 



This very distinct species differs from those previously described 

 in the remarkably circular form of its leaves. From S. Brunonis, 

 to which it comes nearest, it is also distinguished by its flower- 

 stalk being much lengthened out, the calyx shaggy, not smooth, 

 and the flowers rose-coloured, not blue. 



It is a small fleshy-rooted perennial, requiring to be treated 

 like Achimenes and similar fleshy-rooted plants — that is to say, 

 to be grown in a mixture of sandy loam, peat, and leaf-mould, in 

 the stove. It is increased by cuttings or pieces of the roots, placed 

 in sand in the usual way. When the plants have done flowering, 

 they should be kept rather dry and rested. 



The species forms a very handsome and neat little bush, 

 flowering freely in the stove in November and December. 



5. Hibiscus sykiacus, L var. chinensis. 

 Raised from seeds, presented to the Society by John Reeves, Esq. 

 F.H.S., in June, 1844, under the name of Koorkun Vellory. 



1 think there can be no doubt that this, although certainly 

 Chinese, is a mere variety, and not a well marked one, of 

 Hibiscus syriacus. It has large violet flowers, with a crimson eye, 

 and its leaves are larger, thinner, and more smooth than in the 

 bhrub out of doors, owing, perhaps, to having been grown in a 

 stove. But the last circumstance is evidently unimportant, for 

 in Mr. Fortune's wild specimens now before us, the leaf-stalks are 

 perfectly shaggy. This traveller found it forming a shrub eight 

 to twelve feet high, with light " blue " flowers, in the hedges and 

 on hill-sides on Poo-too-san, and other islands. 



Wheu growing in a stove, with the same kind of treatment as is 

 required by the well-known Hibiscus rosa-sinensis — that is to say, 

 if placed in a mixture of sandy loam, peat, and leaf-mould, it forms 

 a very handsome shrub, flowering in July and August. 



(». Colletia sekratifolia. Ventenat choix des ])U(ntes, t. 15. 

 De Cand. Prodr. ii. 28. 



Received from Dr. Fischer, of St. Petersburgh, on the 27th 

 of August, 1842, under the name of Discaria crenata. 



A Peruvian and Chilian shrub, branches bright green, like 

 those of a Broom; leaves opposite, shining, bright green, crenated, 

 obtuse, furnished at the base with a pair of erect brown stipules, 

 which remain upon the stem after the leaves themselves have 



