lin NEW PLANTS, ETC., FROM TlIK SOCIETY'S GARDEN. 



lanceolate, brownish bracts ; and mixed with tlie flowers them- 

 selves are many long, narrow, reflexed bracts, wliose dull pale 

 brown colour forms a disadvantageous contrast. 



In the accompanying sketch a piece of the flower-spike is 

 represented of the natural size, with some magnified details of 

 the structure. 1. Shows the column and lip, seen from the side, 

 the sepals and petals having been removed ; 2. Is a view of the 

 slipf)cr-shaped lip, seen from above; 3. Is a front view of the 

 column ; and 4, tlie pollen masses. 



It is best treated as the half terrestrial kinds are, and grown in 

 rather a shady part of the house ; it requires but little moisture 

 or heat, and a light loose material to grow in. 



It is a plant of little value. 



15. Polygonum Brunonis. Wallich, Plcmtce AsiaticcB Ra- 

 riores, iii. 54 ; Boyle's Illustrations, t. 80, f. 3. 



Raised from seeds received, in April, 1845, from Captain 

 William Monro, from the nortliern parts of India. 



This, like P. vacciniifolium, already described at page 80 of 

 the present volume, is a dark-green-leaved trailing half-shrubby 

 plant, with dwarf ascending stems, which bear spikes of ro.sy 

 flowers; but it is larger in all its parts, and capable of covering 

 considerable patches with its shoots in the course of a single 

 summer. Its stems are as thick as a goose quill, long stalked, 

 lanceolate, a little broader at tlie end, and when old, marked 

 with pi'ominent veins round the edges, which gives them the ap- 

 pearance of being serrated. The stipules are long, membranous, 

 and convolute, extending into a ribbed lanceolate blade as long 

 as the petiole, but not at all broken up into fringes. The flowers 

 are larger and paler than in P. vacciniifolium ; in neither species 

 do they in this country attain the rich red given them in 

 Dr. Royle's plates. Inhabits the mountains of India along with 

 P. vacciniifolium. 



A hardy trailing little shrub, well suited for the decoration 

 of rockwork. 



Sept. 7, 1847. 



