218 NEW PLANTS, ETC., 



wood ; the whole plant imparted a yellow colour to water. 

 Leaves about ^ an inch long, lucid, when dry of a bright yel- 

 lowish-brown beneath : petioles about 1 line long. Fascicles 

 2-6-flowered : pedicels as long as the petioles. Sepals ovate, 

 with 1 middle and 2 marginal nerves. Stamens nearly as long 

 as the sepals. Ovary ovate. Styles often distinct below the 

 middle. Fruit greenish or yellowish, usually (by abortion) 

 1-seeded. Seed with a longitudinal furrow on one side." 



In the Garden it proves to be a neat small-leaved evergreen, 

 which, if hardy, would be a useful shrubbery plant ; but near 

 London it is tender. It flowers in June. 



11. Calycanthus occidentalis. Hooker, Botany of Beechey^s 

 Voyage, p. 340, t. 84. 



Raised from seeds sent home by Hartweg from California, 

 under tlie name of Calycanthus macrophyllus, and said 

 to be a shrub 6 feet high, growing along rivulets near 

 Sonoma. 



A pale green bush ; leaves oblong, acuminate, smooth, and 

 coloured alike on both sides, with sliort stalks ; obtuse or slightly 

 cordate at the base, somewliat scabrous above. Flowers solitary, 

 brownish red, larger than usual, with a subacid unpleasant odour. 

 Bracts numerous, subulate, revolute, green. Sepals and petals 

 linear-lanceolate, obtuse, the outer spreading or even rolled back, 

 the inner erect, few, of unequal lengths, incurved, completely 

 concealing the stamens. 



This species is rather tender, with a handsomer foliage than 

 other "Carolina Allspices," but without their delicious fragrance. 

 It is more an object of botanical than horticultural interest. It 

 flowers in June and July. 



12. Epidendrum coriifolium.* 



A native of Central America, presented (o the Society by 

 G. U. Skinner, Esq. 



This singular plant is, in all its parts, of a ton^h, thick, leathery 

 texture, and is generally glazed, as it were, with a shining exuda- 

 tion. The narrow stiif leaves are blunt, about 6 inches long, 

 concave, with a sharp midrib. The spike, which is terminal, and 

 about 4 inches long, consists of hard amplexicaul keeled bracts 



* E. coriifolium (Euepidendrum) ; foliis angustis coriaceis subdistichis 

 carinatis concavis obtusis, spica densa terminali, bracteis coriaceis carinatis 

 herbaceis distichis ovario longioribus, sepal is lateralibus crassis carinatis 

 ovalibus, petalis linearibus spathulatis, labello subrotuiido piano emarginato 

 per medium calloso. 



