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to a noble tree, growing iu Nepal at an altitude of 8 — 1(3,000 feet, 

 and therefore perfectly hardy. A very few plants have been raised 

 in the Garden, where they prove to be, in their seedling state, 

 quite different from any species previously raised there. The 

 following is Mr. Gordon's description of the materials received 

 from Dr. Eoyle: — 



" Leaves, two in a sheath, rather spreading, from 2 to 2^ 

 inches iu length, rather broad, stiff, blunt-pointed, partially 

 twisted, concave on the upper surface, and light glaucous green. 

 Sheaths, very short, particularly on the adult leaves, ragged or 

 torn, and partially persistent. 



" Cones, 2^ inches in length, and 1 inch broad in the middle, of 

 a greyish-brown colour, oblong-conical, slightly tapering to the 

 base, and rather blunt-pointed. Scales, smallest and most nume- 

 rous near the base, and largest near the middle, slightly elevated 

 in the centre, and terminating in an irregular four-sided pro- 

 jecting hooked point, slightly bent backwards. 



" Seeds, very small, with a broadish wing, rather more than half 

 an inch in length. 



" Seed leaves on the young plants, mostly in sixes, and rather 

 long. 



" The Society received seeds of this Pine from the Honourable 

 Court of Directors of the East India Company in April, 1853, 

 but as very few seeds grew, it must continue to be scarce for some 

 time. It certainly is new to our collections. Previously we 

 had no Pine from India with only two leaves in a sheath, and 

 verv small cones." 



2. Nycterinia selagtnoides. Bentham in De Candolle's 

 Prodromiis, X. 348. — Ei'inus selaginoides, Thnnherg. 



A very pretty greenhouse annual, received from Messrs. 

 Vilmorin & Co., under the erroneous name of N. villosa. It 

 forms a broad spreading patch of pale dull green hairy herbage, 

 arranged in the manner of a Candytuft. The leaves are linear- 

 spathulate, and slightly toothed ; the uppermost quite entire and 

 adnate to the tube of the calyx, than which they are much longer. 

 The flowers are arranged much in the same manner as in Iberis, 

 forming a true corymb. They are pure white except the eye, 

 which is a very deep-yellow cup fringed by an exquisitely beauti- 

 ful coronet of tiny yellow hairs, The tube of the corolla is very 



