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enough to succeed well in the open air in England. It is a fa- 

 vourite plant with tlie Chinese, who call it tiie " Che-icang-chok," 

 or the '• Blue and Yellow Bamboo," so named from the peculiar 

 tint of bluish-green which the leaves have, and from the yellow 

 colour of the flowers. The Chinese, who are not very particular 

 about generic distinctions, call a great number of plants Bam- 

 boos, which, according to our ideas of genera, have nothing at all 

 to do with them. In this instance the plant is named from a 

 slight resemblance which its stems have to those of the Bamboo. 

 It is a fine shrub, particularly valuable owing to the beauty of 

 its dark-green pinnated foliage, and its neat compact habit. If 

 it prove hardy it will make a very ornamental plant for a lawn 

 or rockwork, where neat evergreens are always most desirable. 

 In its native country it flowers in the autumn, producing nume- 

 rous little yellow spikes, which are well represented in the ac- 

 companying wood-cut. In the garden of the Society, where it 

 has been for some months, it is found to strike easily from cut- 

 tings, and to grow well in any common soil. 



R. Fortune. 



49. Lysimachia Candida.* 

 Raised from the soil contained in one of the boxes sent from 

 China by Mr. Fortune, April 6, 1846. 



This is a dwarf, compact, dark-green herbaceous plant, grow- 

 ing about a foot high. It is perfectly smooth. The radical 

 leaves are narrowly oval, tapering into the stalk, and about 4 

 inches long ; those of the branches are very narrow, and some- 

 what spathulate ; all of them are very obscurely toothed at the 

 edge, or show some tendency to be so, and are marked by scat- 

 tered dark-purple dots, which are not seen unless the leaves are 

 viewed by transmitted light. The flowers grow in close racemes, 

 are white, and have much the appearance of those of L. Epherae- 

 rum, but the corollas are much larger. 



From the short time it has been in the garden it is impossible 

 to state what its proper mode of treatment may be. It will in 

 all probability prove hardy, or at least enough so for bedding out 

 in the flower-garden. It appears to be a plant of free growth, 

 and likely to succeed in any sort of soil. From the profuse 

 manner in which it blossoms, it will doubtless be abundantly 

 multiplied from seed. 



June 29, 1846. 



* L. (Ephemerum) Candida; glaberrima, foliis obsolete dentatis inte- 

 grisque sparse punctatis radicalibus ovalibus in petiolum augustatis ranieis 

 lineari-spadiulatis, caule ramoso, floribus racemosis, bracteis subulatis pedi- 

 cellis brevioribus, calyeis laciuiis_ subulatis tubo corollffi imberbis a;quali- 

 bus. — J. L. 



