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Schlim. But as those travellers were employed in N. Grenada^ the statement seems to be a mistake. Tt has long 
linear-lanceolate leaves^ which are smooth on both sides and shining, and spiny-toothed at the base ; the scape is as long as 
the leaves, covered with a fine wool as well as the slender bracts. The spike is about 3 inches long, the corolla 1^ to 
2 inches long, and scarlet-red. It would seem to be a species of some interest to cultivators- 
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351. EiiAMNUS CROCEUS. NuUalL A half-hardy evergreen shrub, from California. Belongs 
to the Order of Buckthorns. Introduced b}^ the Horticultural Society. Mowers green. 
Raised from seed received from Hartweg in January, 1848, and marked "a dwarf evergreen shrub, near the sea 
shore, Monterey." — A small evergreen bush, first described by Mr. Nuttall, who found it in bushy hills and thickets near 
Monterey, and who describes it as ^^ A much branched thoray shrub, with yellow wood ; the whole plant imparted a 
yellow colour to water. Leaves about half an inch long, lucid, when dry of a bright yellowish-brown beneath: petioles 
about one line long. Fascicles 2-6 flowered: pedicels as long as the petioles. Sepals ovate, with one middle and two 
marginal nerves. Stamens nearly as long as the sepals. Ovary ovate. Styles often distinct below the middle. Fruit 
greenish or yellowish, usually (by abortion) one-seeded. Seed with a longitudinal furrow on one side." 
In the garden it proves to be a neat small-leaved evergreen, which, if hardy, would be a useful shrubbery plant; 
but near London it is tender. It flowers in June. — Jov/rnal of II art. Soc, vol. vi. 
352. EuuYBiA ALPiNA. A hardy evergreen shrub, from New Zealand, 
belonging to the Order of Composites, Plowers dirty white. Introduced 
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by Messrs. Veitch. (^ig- 177, a diminished sketch; 1, a cluster of flowers of 
the natural size.) 
E, alpina (Argophyllaia) finiticosa densa, ramis angulatis subtomentosis, foliis altemis 
petiolatis coriaceis oblongis acutis dentatis supra glabris subtus pallidis adpresse tomentosis, 
capitulis dense paniculatis, involucris villosis tomentosisve. 
In this instance we have a further proof of the hardiness of some of the evergreen Australian 
vegetation, especially in the Order of Composites. Swammerdamia antennifera is now becoming 
a common evergreen ; and Messrs. Veitch produced this in full flower, or leather past flower, 
at the May meeting of the Horticultural Society, from the open nursery at Exeter. It forAs 
a stout bush, with angular strong branches, and firm, leathery, evergreen leaves, from 2 to 
2J inches long, deep green on the upper side, pale and somewhat hoary beneath. They are 
much concealed by the large quantity of dirty white flowers, which as they go oflF greatly 
diminish the neatness of the plant, especially as the florets drop ofi* and make way for a dirty 
brown pappus, which becomes very conspicuous. 
We find this plant among dried specimens collected in New Zealand 
by Mr. Bidwill, at the elevation of 8000 feet above the sea in the 
northern island. He describes it as a shrub 6 feet high, and believes it 
to be the same as a coast plant of which he also sent home specimens. 
The latter has larger, thinner, longer leaves, much more tapering to the 
base ; but may nevertheless be only a lowland form. The species is 
nearly allied to E. furfuracea, a New Zealand species with scurfy entire 
leaves, and also to the New Holland E, anjophjlla or Musk Tree. 
353. PiTCAiiiNiA EXSCAPA. IIooTcer. A handsome hot- 
house perennial, with crimson flowers, belonging to ]3ro- 
Messrs 
meliads. Native of New Grenada. Introduced by 
Jackson and Son. 
This very curious and rather handsome Pitcaimia was detected, as 
an infant plant, among some Orchidacese purchased from New Grenada, 
by Mr. Jackson of the Kingston Nursery, Surrey. They were carefully 
reared, and our figure represents two of them in a flowering state. The 
species is remarkable for the great length of the very attenuated 
leaves, and no less so for the sessile and densely bracteated spike of 
red flowers. I can nowhere find such a species described. It 
belongs, as far as the structure of the flowers is concerned, to the same group as Pltccdnila suaveolem, 
Lmdl., figured in Botanical Register, t 10G9,that is to say, where the petals liave a certain twist, occasioning their 
apices to pomt one way, and there is, moreover, a curvature there, giving a galeated character to these petals. We 
possess, from New Grenada, two other steraless and scapeless (or nearly so) Pitcaimia^, and there, too, the braeteas 
