148 NEW PLANTS, ETC., 



clusters of four upon branches scarcely beginning to put forth 

 their leaves. They are rather more than an inch long, covered 

 externally with soft, closely-pressed hairs, and divided in the 

 border into four roundish, oblong, obtuse, uneven lobes, of which 

 the two inner are the smallest. In the inside of the tube of tiie 

 calyx are eigiit nearly sessile stamens in two rows, with narrow 

 sharp-pointed anthers. The ovary is smooth, stalked, one-celled, 

 with a small fleshy scale at its base, and a single suspended ovule : 

 it produces abruptly from its summit a very short cylindrical 

 style, ended by a capitate hairy stigma. 



No species yet described approaches very nearly to this, which 

 has been named after its enterprising discoverer. The seeds 

 being unknown, it can only be conjectured that it belongs to the 

 Mezereum division of the genus. 



It is a greenhouse, or perhaps half-hardy shrub, and grows 

 freely in a mixture of sandy loam and peat. During summer an 

 ample supply of water should be given, and air at all times when 

 the weather is favourable. In winter it must be kept quite cool, 

 in an airy part of the house ; and being deciduous, very little 

 water will be required during the absence of its leaves. It may 

 be propagated by cuttings of half-ripe wood under ordinary 

 treatment. 



It is a charming addition to our greenhouse plants, more espe- 

 cially since it appears to be well adapted for forcing. 



January 26, 1846. 



23. Edgworthia chrysantha.* 



A deciduous shrub, producing bunches of yellow sweet- 

 scented flowers, from Chusan, &c. ; from Mr. R. For- 

 tune. Received April 9th, 1845. 



This is a dwarf soft-wooded shrub, throwing up rod-like dull 

 green stems from its base, and bearing the leaves exclusively 

 near their ends. 



The leaves are about eight or nine inches long, oblong-lanceo- 

 late, stalked, very dull green, and^ covered with fine hairs, so 

 small and closely pressed to the surface that the naked eye fails 

 to discern them. The flowers have not yet been produced in 

 England ; but Mr. Fortune's Chinese drawings and specimens 

 show them to be bright golden yellow, something less than an 

 inch long, covered with exceedingly thick hair on the outside, 

 and collected into balls about two inches in diameter at the ends 



* E. chrysantha ; foliorum costis minutissime pilosis, calycis tubo clavato 

 sericeo-villoso. — J. L. 



