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NEW PLANTS, ETC., 



which renders the above addition unnecessary. It is to be re- 

 gretted that it is not yet sufficiently hardy to succeed out of 

 doors ; but it can be easily cultivated in pits or in pots in any 

 forcing house, and thus afford an additional variety to the culi- 

 nary list even in winter. 



15. Rhynchospermum jasminoides. Lindley. 

 Collected at Shanghai, by Mr. Fortune. 

 This is a slender climbing evergreen shrub, rooting along its 



branches, wherever it touches a damp surface, like ivy. When 

 wounded, its branches discharge a milky fluid. The young 

 shoots are slightly downy ; the leaves opposite, oval, deep green, 

 quite smooth, sharp pointed, with minute scale-like glands in 



