FROM THE SOCIETY'S GARDEN. 233 



and like it has a calyx furnished with reflexed appendages ; but 

 its stigma is trifid, on which account it more nearly approaches 

 the Sarmatian and Dotted Bell worts ( C. sarmatica and punctata). 

 It is however perfectly distinct, and a grand addition to hand- 

 some hardy herbaceous plants. 



Hitherto it has been treated as a greenhouse plant, but Mr. 

 Fortune is of opinion that it will prove hardy. It grows freely 

 in rough sandy peat, and, like most of the species of Campanula, 

 requires an ample supply of water during the spring months. 

 It may be abundantly multiplied by dividing its roots, and pos- 

 sibly from seeds also. 



Mai/ 29, 1846. 



39. DiELYTRA SPECTABiLis. Dc Cund. Prodr. I, 126. (Fu- 



maria spectabilis, Linntei Amcenitates Academicce, 

 vol. vii., p. 457, t. 7.) 



Gardens in the North of China, Mr. Fortune. 



This plant, which is beyond all comparison the handsomest 

 of the natural order of Fumeworts, was first made known to 

 Europeans by the Russo-Siberian De Karamyschew, who, studying 

 at Upsal, communicated it to Linnaeus. It does not, however, 

 appear to have been seen alive until Mr. Fortune found it cul- 

 tivated by the Chinese, and brought it home with him. 



When in good health its stems grow 1:^ foot high, and have 

 three or four axillary racemes of beautiful flowers, each raceme 

 being from 4 to 6 inches long. The flowers are a full inch long, 

 and nearly | of an inch wide, with the two saccate petals of a 

 delicate rose colour, and the intervening projecting narrow ones 

 white with a purple tip. 



It is to be expected that the plant will be hardy like the 

 others of its race, but too little is yet known of its habits. 



May 29, 1846. 



40. AcHiMENES PATENS. Bentham Plantce Hartwegianae, 



p. 47, No. 353. 



Mexico, in shady places between Zitacuaro and the Ha- 

 cienda de Laureles, Mr. Hartweg. 



One of the first objects to which Mr. Hartweg directed his 

 attention on his return to Mexico, in 1845, was the recovery of 

 this beautiful plant, which he had found in the course of his 

 former researches, but which had not been reared in the garden 

 of the Society. Although the season was so far advanced that 

 herbage had all become withered, he succeeded in discovering 



