iharp 
termmal 
keeled bracts pressed close to the flowers, and forming a kind of cone before they expand. The flowers are pale 
green, very firm and leathery, with a broad roundish convex lip, having an elevated callosity along the middle. The 
lateral sepals, which are particularly thick, have a serrated keel at the back. 
This is a species of no beauty, nearly related to Ep, rigidum^ but its leaves are much longer and narrower, and the flowers 
three or four times as large, and extremely coriaceous. It flowers in March or April in the stove. — Jour, of Hort. Soc.^ vol. vi. 
357, Acacia hispidissdia. De Canchlle. {alias A. Cycnorura Bentham.) A handsome green- 
house shrub, with deep yellow clusters of flowers, and very hispid branches. A native of Swan 
Eiver. Mowers at Kew in the early spring. 
A Swan River plant, introduced by Mr. Drummond. There are four Acacias enumerated by Mr. Bentham as 
nearly allied to, and perhaps not really distinct from each other ; A.pulcJiella Brown, figured in Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 212; 
1. lasiocarpa Benth. ; A . Mspidissima De Cand. ; and A. Cymorurn Benth,,—BM from the Swan River settlement. Our 
plant accords best with the A. Mspidissima^ except that it should have pedicellated glands on the leaves, whereas both 
our native and cultivated specimens are destitute of them ; in this particular agreeing with the A, Cycnorum^ which, 
how^ever, ought to have pubescent and not very hispid branches. It may thus, we think, fairly be conceded that 
A. Cycnorum aud A. Jiispidissima are but varieties of each other. The present is a very handsome species, having much 
larger leaflets and much larger capitula of flowers than A.pulckella^ and these flowers of a rich deep yellow colour. It 
is, further, much stouter and more compactly growing than that species, forming very dense masses of foliage, and 
equally dense globose heads of flowers. 
A much-branching shrub, with angular branches, and these branches and branchlets, and peduncles too, downy and 
lading 
Leaves copious, nearly 
sessile, dark green : pinnse 
unijugate, bearing five to seven oblong leaflets, which are obtuse, glabrous, or ciliated. A sharp acicular reddish spine 
is situated at the base of the leaf, and is about half its length. From the base of the leaf also the peduncles appear 
generally, in pairs, shorter (usually) than the leaf, and bearing a dense golden head of numerous little flowers. 
This showy Acacia, like most of the Australian species of that genus, requires the protection of the greenhouse. It 
thrives in a mixture of light loam and sandy peat-soil, and, being a free grower, is well adapted either for planting out 
in the conservatory border or for growing in a pot. If due attention is paid to training and stopping the leading 
shoots, it will soon form a neat round bushy plant, and in spring present a gay appearance when in flower. It is 
increased by seeds, which vegetate readily in a moderate heat. — jBot. Mag.^ t. 4588. 
358. Ehamnus hirsutus. WigM and ArnolL A hardy deciduous slirub from tlie mountains 
of India. Flowers green; appearing in June. (Kg. 179.) 
This shrub is thus described by Dr. Wight. " Young branches pubescent, spinescent, older ones glabrous, with a 
white cuticle ; leaves opposite or alternate, ovate, or oblong lanceolate, with a short sudden aeumination, serrulated, 
membranaceous, nearly glabrous above ; beneath hairy, particularly on the nerves and veins ; pedicels from the base of 
the young shoots, 3-6 together, pubescent, as long as the petiole : calyx 4-cleft ; petals obovate, obtuse, entire flat ; 
ovary 2-3 celled ; styles 2-3, connected to the middle, then diverging ; the upper part jointed with and deciduous from 
the persistent lower half ; fruit 2-celled ; seeds plano-convex, with a deep furrow at the base on the outer convex side. 
A considerable shrub, rather extensively distributed on the Neilgheny hills, but not so common on the higher ranges 
as lower down ; it usually presents a rather scraggy appearance. It is to be met with in flower at almost all seasons." 
To this we can only add that the species is extremely like EJtamnus catkarticu^, from which, however, its hairiness readily 
distinguishes it. 
COEIAHIA 
JTc 
imalavan. deciduous busli 
wn 
Belongs to the neighbourhood of Ochnads. (Eig. ISO.) 
According to Wallich this is either a shrub eight to ten feet high, or a small tree, twelve to sixteen feet high, in its 
native mountain valleys of Nepal and Deyra Doon. In this country it is too much injured by frost to acquire any such 
stature; but it is nevertheless hardy enough, sending up stout four-cornered shoots from its roots if the old stems perish. 
Its leaves are smooth, 3-5 nerved, oblong, acute, in opposite pairs, but placed in a distichous order. The flowers appear 
in May, upon leafless branches, in short imbricated drooping spikes. They consist of five ovate, imbricated, acute sepals, 
small 
linear spreading stigm; 
Mussooree to the Nepal province now so called, where it is most abundant at an elevation of from 5000 to 7000 feet 
ccnlent 
folia) are considered poisonous, when taken in any quantity. Griffith, who found it on the Bootan Mountains, merely says 
that it is a small bush {frutlculus) with long weak branches, crimson anthers, and stigmas looking something like a 
Xanthoxylum which he calls ^ Geeree nuddee:* It occurred at the height of from 3400 to 6000 feet His remark about 
formerly 
curious, and assists in estabhshine the claim of Coriaria 
