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NEW PLANTS, ETC., 



potted in rich sandy loam, and treated like Habranthus and 

 similar bulbs. It is increased by offsets. 



It is very handsome, deserving general cultivation even in 

 the most select collections. 



August 24, 1848. 



33. Navarretia atractyloides. Hooker and Arnott. 



Raised from seeds received from Mr. Ilartweg in January, 

 1848, and said to be found in fields near Monterey, in 

 California. 



Stem purple, very wavy, about six inches high, covered with 

 viscid glandular hairs. Leaves ovate, sessile, pinnatifid, with 

 straight, stiff, spiny segments of a narrow triangular form. 

 Flowers in nearly sessile heads, much shorter than the leaves, very 

 pale lilac, or nearly white, with a greenish yellow tube, small, 

 and inconspicuous. Odour of the plant foxy and unpleasant. 



A hardy annual. The seeds should be sown thickly in the 

 open borders in spring. 



Only a botanical plant. It has no beauty or attraction other- 

 wise. 



July 11, 1848. 



34. Valeriana Mikani^.* 



Raised from the rubbish received among Mr, Skinner's 

 Guatemala Orchids in April, 1847. 



Stem entangled, terete, twining. Leaves three inches long, 

 quite smooth, with deeply-sunk nervures, and, when bruised, 

 the odour of peasecotis. Flowers minute, white, in large en- 

 tangled panicles. Corolla white, with a five-cleft revolute limb, 

 and a gibbous tube. 



A half-shrubby climbing plant, requiring to be kept in the 

 warmest part of the greenhouse during the winter and spring 

 months. It grows freely in any good rich loamy soil, and is 

 easily increased either by cuttings or by seeds. 



It is of no value as an ornamental plant. 



August 30, 1848. 



35. Phytolacca icosandra. LinncEus. 



Presented to the Society by Messrs. Veitch in 1847, under 

 the name of Bucelia violacea. 



This old but very handsome perennial has become common in 

 gardens under the name of bucelia violacea. It has fleshy, 



* V. Mihanicr ; scandens, glabra, caule tereti, foliis cordatis apice triangu- 

 laribus acuminatis basi dentatis, nuuc cordato-ovatis dentatis, floribus pani- 

 culatis minutissimis. — J. L. 



