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without leaves, producing at the end of every little shoot one or 

 two large flowers of a clear rose-colour, distinctly spotted with 

 crimson on one side, and guarded at the base by a large sheath 

 of bright brown scales (whence its name). Its calyx, unlike 

 tliat of the neighbouring species, is reduced to a mere five- 

 toothed rim. Its ovary, immediately after the fall of the corolla, 

 projects in the form of an oblong body quite covered with coarse 

 brown hairs. The leaves wlien young are somewhat like those 

 of A. indica, and have nothing distinctive in their shape or sur- 

 face ; but when old they are oval, sharp at each end, perfectly 

 hairless, and as even on the upper surface as those of Rhododen- 

 dron punctatum. 



The plant has been long known from dried specimens and 

 drawings sent from China by Mr. Reeves, the latter of which 

 are preserved in the library of the Society : but it has never 

 before been introduced alive. At present its flowers have only 

 been produced by plants out of health, and therefore they have 

 given no just idea of the beauty of the plant, which is one of the 

 finest in cultivation. 



This species will scarcely prove hardy. In a case, containing 

 several plants, Mr. Fortune sent home a portion of the soil, 

 brown loam, in which it was found growing wild, and for the 

 purpose of trying its effects one plant was potted in it ; but it 

 has by no means the healthy appearance of those potted in rough 

 sandy peat. It strikes freely from cuttings of young wood under 

 ordinary treatment. 



The beautiful spotted flowers and neat foliage, together with a 

 dwarf habit, will render this a plant of considerable importance. 



Feb. 28, 1846. 



28. Jasminum nudiflorum.* 



Received from Ninkin, from Mr. Fortune, July 24, 1844. 



This is a shrub with angular deep-green trailing branches, 

 which have little disposition to branch in the first year of their 

 growth. The leaves are shining, deep green, and each consists 

 of 3 sessile leaflets of an ovate form. They fall off" early in the 

 autumn, soon after which they are succeeded by large yellow 

 scentless flowers, which grow singly from the buds formed in the 

 axils of the leaves that have previously dropped. The limb of 

 their corolla is about an inch in diameter, and divided into 6 

 broad, oblong, blunt, flat segments. 



* J. nudiflorum ; ramis angulatis vimineis, foliis hysteranthiis trifoliolatis 

 glabris, foliolis ovatis acutis, lioribus (luteis) solitariis basi squamatis, caly- 

 cis laciaiis linearibus herbaceis, coroUae limbo 6-lobo obtusissimo.— J. L. 



