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of deep purple. The flowers are perfectly double, but are other- 

 wise those of P. Moutan papaveracea. It is one of the finest of 

 Moutans both in size and form. 



7. P. Moutan /«Zac?««. Received in April, 1845 (No. 3o3), 

 and in May, 1846 (No. 621), marked "said to be blue." This 

 much resembles the P. Moutan Baiiksii in the form of the flowers 

 and in foliage ; but the flowers are more double, and are shaded 

 with a deeper lilac or purple. They are well filled up in the 

 centre with small petals, which are deeper in colour than the 

 outer ones. It is a nice variety, although not strikingly different 

 from P. Moutan JBanksii. 



14. Mr. Fortune's Camei^lias. 



Of the varieties of Camellia received from Mr. Fortune, five 

 plants have now flowered, without producing anything of value. 

 Nos. 684, 584, and 761, received May 8, 1846, under the name 

 of the Hexangular variety, so long and vainly sought for, all 

 proved to be the old myrtle-leaved sort ; as also did No. 743, 

 named the "Star," and described as "a very fine variety of C. 

 hexangularis," received May 8, 1846. No. 341, called Camellia, 

 "fine red," Canton, received April 9, 1845, proved to be a 

 poor, Anemone-flowered variety, with rather small thin flowers, 

 and not worth cultivation. It was in the way of Camellia japonica 

 atroruhens. 



April, 1848. 



15. Thyrsacanthus strictus. Nees in D. C. Prodr. xi. 

 324. Bot. Mag. t. 4378. — (Th. Lemaireanus, Nees v. 

 Esenheck, in De Candolle^s Prodr. xi. 729 — Eranthemum 

 coccineum, Lemaire. Aphelandra longiscapa, Justicia 

 longiracemosa, Salpixantha coccinea, Hort.) 



Presented by Messrs. Henderson, of Pine-Apple Place, 

 Edgeware Road. 



This is a very pretty shrub, with lanceolate, somewhat wavy 

 acuminate, stalked, opposite smooth leaves. The flowers are ar- 

 ranged in short clusters in a naked interrupted slender terminal, 

 downy spike, fully 18 inches long; their coi'olla is more than 

 an inch long, very deep salmon colour, curved, with a somewhat 

 two-lipped five-lobed limb, tiie two upper lobes being narrower 

 than the others, and united at their base. The two stamens, with 

 their straw-coloured anthers, are about as long as the upper lip of 

 the corolla. 



A stove shrub, requiring the same kind of treatment as Justi- 

 cias, and easily increased by cuttings. It is a useful plant, as it 

 remains long in bloom. 



April, 1848. 



