226 NEW PLANTS, ETC., 



NEW PLANTS, ETC., FROM THE SOCIETrS 

 GARDEN. 



32. Gardenia Florida, L. ; var. Fortuniana. 

 North of China, Mr. Fortune. 



The common single and double varieties of this plant are 

 known to every one. That which is now noticed differs merely 

 in the extraordinary size of the flowers, which are nearly 4 

 inches in diameter, and in having fine broad leaves sometimes as 

 much as 6 inches long. The flowers are pure white, changing 

 to light buff" as they go off", and not unlike a very large double 

 Camellia. Their calyx has the long broad lobes of the original 

 species, instead of the narrow lobes, at least twice as short as the 

 tube of the corolla, of G. radicans, by which that species is 

 technically known. 



It is one of the very finest shrubs in cultivation, and ranks on 

 a level with the double white Camellia, which it equals in the 

 beauty of the flowers and leaves, and infinitely excels in its deli- 

 cious odour. 



May 18, 1846. 



33. FORSYTHIA VIRIDISSIMA.* 



A fine flowering deciduous shrub, 3 to 6 feet high, with 

 yellow flowers, from the north of China, Mr. Fortune. 

 " Very ornamental." 



A bush with a very rich green colour, and handsome foliage, 

 looking something like a Viburnum, was received from Mr. 

 Fortune some time before he returned from his mission ; but in 

 the absence of flowers it could not be determined. Dried speci- 

 mens have now supplied the deficiency, and proved it to be a 

 new species of the genus Forsythia, of which one only had been 

 previously known to Botanists. 



That plant, the Forsythia suspensa of Vahl, was called a 

 Lilac by Thunberg, who thus perceived its natural affinity, but 

 was not happy in his identification of it, for although its leaves 



* F. viridissima ; ramis erectis tetragonis, foliis simplicibus oblongis et 

 oblongo-lanceolatis petiolatis versus apicem serratis dimidia inferiore integer- 

 rimis, floribus ante folia breviter pedicellatis geminatis cernuis, sepalis sub- 

 rotundis convexis ovarii longitudine. — J. L. 



