130 NOTICES OF NEW OR RAKE OARDEN PLANTS. 



delicate abortive stamens having been overlooked by the former 

 author. Like many Acanthads, the foliage of this plant is rather 

 coarse and weedy, but the flowers are striking objects. It is, 

 however, very tender, and requires all that a hot damp stove can 

 give it. 



Viburnum suspensum.* Of Belgian Gardens. 



Under this name the Society received from Mr. Van Houtte, of 

 Ghent, an evergreen shrub nearly related to V. dahuricum, from 

 which it is readily distinguished by its large smooth leaves, and 

 drooping compact cymes of greenish white flowers, a little tinged 

 with yellow. Its manner of growth is that of a Laurustinus, but 

 the leaves are thinner, strongly veined on the under side, crenate, 

 and rounded at the point, and of a bright uniform green. The 

 tube of the corolla is rather more than a quarter of an inch long, 

 and cylindrical ; the limb is divided into five blunt lobes shorter 

 than the tube. The ovary is one-celled. 



The plant flowered in a glass wall, last February. It grows 

 freely in any good garden soil, and is increased by cuttings of 

 the half-ripened wood. Should it prove hardy it will be valuable. 

 Concerning its native country no information has been gained. 



Calceolaria hyssopifolia. Humb. B. <& Kunth nor. 

 gen. et sp., II. 386. D. C. Froth., X. 222. 



A specimen of this species was sent by J. Anderson, Esq., of 

 Maryfield, under the name of C. lavandulifolia (which is a different 

 plant), with the following memorandum : — 



" Dr. Jamieson describes this as perhaps the handsomest we 

 have. It grows on pastures above the level of Quito, say at 

 10,000 feet. It is truly an elegant shrub, about two feet high, 

 and throws its panicles of bloom all over and around the plant, 

 so that it looks as if adorned with a canopy of white and golden 

 balls : the blooms partake of both colours, which greatly heightens 

 the effect. The spike sent is from a plant put out all summer 

 on the border, where it luxuriates more than in the greenhouse." 

 —August 16, 1852. 



* V. suspewmiu (Solenotiuus) foliis oblongis obtusis crcuatis glabris basi 

 aeutis petiolatis, oymis densis pedunculitis nutantibus stellato-pubescenti- 

 bus, corolla; tubo cylindraceo limbo obtuso longiore. — /. L. 



