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NEW PLANTS, ETC., FROM THE SOCIETY'S 

 GARDEN. 



1. Spir^a expansa. Wall. Cat., Herb. Ind.,No.102. 



Received from Mr. Glendinning in 1846 ; said to have 

 been raised from seeds received from Kamoon. 



A bush covered in every part with soft short hairs. Its young 

 branches are brownish green. The leaves are stalked, elliptic 

 lanceolate, simply serrated above the middle, whitish beneath, 

 wrinkled above, and not in the least shining ; but of one uniform 

 dull yellowish green. The flowers are small and pink in broad 

 terminal corymbose panicles, which are so flat as to form the 

 appearance of a table of flowers. In the wild specimens the 

 panicles appear to be as much as nine inches across. 



It is a hardy shrub, which grows freely in any good common 

 garden-soil, and is easily increased by cutting of the half-ripened 

 wood in the autumn. 



It must be regarded as a fine species. It remains rather long 

 in flower and blooms abundantly. 



July 10, 1847. 



2. GiLiA PHARNACEOiDES. Betith. ifi Bot. Keg. sub n. 

 1622. Hooker, Fl. Bor. Am. 2, t. 161. 



A slender, purple-stemmed branching plant, minutely downy 

 near the base, but otherwise smooth. The leaves, which are 

 opposite, are split as far as the very base into three or five thread- 

 shaped, deep-green segments, whence they appear as if verticillate ; 

 quite at the base they are rather downy. The flowers appear 

 at the ends of the straggling branches on very slender but firm 

 stalks about half an inch long, are a very pale lilac, slightly 

 streaked with a darker tint of the same colour, and measure 

 about half an inch in diameter ; they have a tube no longer than 

 the calyx, and yellow anthers. Their appearance is exactly that 

 of a Leptosiphon without a tube. 



As a hardy annual and new this may have a little interest, 

 but it is very inferior to the Leptosiphons, which it most 

 resembles. 



Aug. 28, 1847. 



