70 NEW PLANTS, ETC., 



This species must be regarded as a very handsome little plant, 

 and very desirable on account of its blooming profusely and 

 for a long time in the autumn. 



Sept. 19, 1845. 



11. Statice Fortuni, Lindley in Bot. Register, t. 63, 1845, 



Sent from Chinchin by Mr. Fortune ; found growing in 

 sandy soil near the sea. 



This is a plant with the manner of growth of the Tartarian 

 Sea-Lavender. The root is perennial. The leaves are all 

 radical, glaucous, spathulate, with 3 principal veins, about 5 or 

 6 inches long. The stems in their wild state are not more than 

 8 or 9 inches high ; but when the plant is produced in a green- 

 house, they become as much as 2 feet high. They are bright 

 green, much branched, angular, and entirely leafless. A few of 

 the lowermost have occasionally no trace of flowers : the latter 

 grow in short, close, one-sided racemes. The bracts are oblong, 

 convex, bright green, with a broad membranous margin ; each 

 produces about 3 flowers. The calyx has pale green ribs and a 

 white plaited border. The corolla is bright pale yellow, consists 

 of 5 emarginate petals joined at the base into a very short tube, 

 and projects a little way beyond the calyx. 



It will probably prove a hardy perennial, and if so, it will 

 be very suitable for bedding out in a flower garden. When 

 grown in pits or frames, it becomes drawn and unsightly, but 

 if planted out in sandy peat, it does not seem to grow above 

 a foot high. It will doubtless be abundantly multiplied from 

 seeds. 



Aug. 26, 1845. 



12. Calystegia pdbescens.* 



liaised from a small portion of the root found in a dead Pseony 

 root, in Box No. 22, from Mr. Fortune's mission in China. The 

 box was sent from Shanghai, and stated to contain a plant of the 

 double Convolvulus, which was supposed to be dead when received 

 at the Garden in June, 1844. 



This curious plant approaches very necirly to the C. sepium or 

 larger bindweed of our English hedges, from which it diflPers in 



* C. pubescens ; caule volubili pubescente, foliis oblongis acutis hastatis 

 pubescentibus lobis baseos angulatis, pedimculis angutosis unifloris, bracteis 

 ovatis ciliatis margine reflexis. — J. L. 



