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GLEAKIXGS AND ORIGINAL MEMOEANDA 
it to signify his traces. The relationship of the plant is evidently gveatest to Trichopilia , it is h«--; ^IrheT 
associate otAspasia, from which it differs in not having the lip united to the column, and m its deep-fnnged anther-bed. 
363. Spiilea laxiflora. Lindle^, A very pretty 
appearing in July, Belongs to Eoseworts. Introduced by 
the Horticultural Society. (Fig. 183.) 
This very distinct shrub was first described in the Botanical 
Register for 1839. It was there stated to resemble S. vacciniifoUa in 
the form of the leaves, and the colour of their nnderside, but they are 
long-stalked and rather glaucous above, while the flowers are arranged 
in large, loose, straggling panicles ; the petals are moreover reflexed. 
The species differs from S, fastlgiata of Wallich, in the leaves having 
much longer stalks, being more ovate, with crenatures rather than 
taper-pointed serratures, and in the panicles being far more lax. It 
is perfectly hardy, and being much more dwarf than most of the 
shrub from Nepal, witli white floAvers 
►ureas 
decorating parterres of a naixed nature. 
364. Foutun^a 
ENSIS 
carya strobilacea Ziiccarini.) 
pinnated leaves and cones of green flowers. 
Juglands, Native of Cliinaj upo 
Ningpo. " The Chinese use the 
Lindley. {alias Platy- 
greenhouse shrub with 
Belongs to 
fruit 
dye the 
colour 
igula: 
from Dr. Cantor, by favour of Lord Auckland, then Governor-General 
of India ; and it was at that time supposed to belong to some unknown 
Conifer- 
red 
dried specimens, and it now proves to be a plant like a Rhus in aspect, 
but in reality a most curious genus of the natural order of Juglands. If, indeed, we could suppose a walnut to be pressed 
flat, reduced to the size and texture of a seed of the Alder tree, and then many such to be collected into a small cone, 
composed of hard, brittle, sharp-pointed scales, we should form artificially what nature has produced in this plant. The 
annexed figure will explain more particularly these facts, if it is borne in mind that Fig. 1 is a cone; 2, one of the ripe 
nuts taken out and much magnified; and 3, an inside view of the same; for it ^vlll be obvious that the latter might almost 
be taken for a wahiut viewed through a diminishing glass. This shrub or tree, for it is uncertain which it is, is perfectly 
distinct from all the other genera of Juglands in ha\4ng its male flowers in catkins, like those of a willow, composed of 
narrow scales, hairy, and apparently white inside, with four small stamens at their base (Fig. 5). The young nuts are 
small lenticular bodies with a wing on each side, a minute superior four-toothed calyx, and a pair of short-spreading 
stigmas (Fig. 4) ; as the most remarkable genus found by Jlr. Fortune during his Chinese expedition, it is proposed to 
give it the name of its indefatigable discoverer— /owrwaZ of HoH. Soc, vol. i. [At the time this was written the genus 
Platycarya was unknown to English botanists.] 
365. Atropa acuminata. Ro^le. A green-flowered^ hardy, herbaceous x^lant^ belonging to the 
order of Nightshades. 
Native of Chinese Tartary at an elevation of 12^000 feet. 
This plant is very much like our European A, Belladonna ; but its leaves are firmer, narrower, and very much 
tapered to the point ; and the flowers are a pale dull yellow, without a trace of the chocolate colour so characteristic of 
berries are not distinguishable. It is a hardy perennial, growing freely in any common 
flie old roots when in a dormant state. It grows about 
the European Belladonna. Th€ 
garden soil, and easily increased either by seeds, or by dividing 
4 feet in height, and flowers in June and July. 
flowers, — Journal of Ilort. Soc*. vol. i. 
It is only valuable as a distinct kind of Deadly Nightshade, with yellow 
Calycanthus 
Hooi 
shrub, with 
scented flowers. 
Cahfornia 
Horticultural 
(Fig. 184.) 
4 
Raised from seed sent home by Hartweg 
be a shrub six feet high, growing along rivulets near Sonoma, California. 
acuminate 
:. 
