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The flowers grow singly or lu pairs at the end of weak, slender shoots ; but, if a Japanese specimen, without a name, 
given us by the late Professor Zuccarini, ' 
should be the same as this, they will ' 
appear hereafter m long interrupted 
racemes with linear or almost filiform 
bracts. The calyx is smooth, with divi- 
sions very variable in length. The styles 
are divided almost to the base. As a 
hardy deciduous shrub, tliis must be re- 
garded as an acquisition. 
376. ZaMIA LlNDLEYI. 
zewicz. 
pinnated narrow 
Veragiia, 
A liotliouse slirub, with 
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This species has a somewhat cylin- 
drical stem, from six to seven feet high, 
equally pinnated leaves, consisting of 
many pairs of linear, sharp-pointed, 
acuminate, entire leaflets, and a hispid 
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petiole. Foimd with the next on the Cordillera of Veragua, at the elevation of from 5000 to 7000 feet above the sea. 
■Allgem. Gartenzeit,^ May 10th, 1851. 
377- Zamia Skinneri. Warczewicz. A hothonse shrub with pinnated broad leaves, from 
Veragua. Belongs to Cycads. Introduced by Mr. Warczewicz. 
The same traveller found this growing in company with Zamia Lhidleyi, The stem is frora four to six feet high, 
broader at the bottom than the top. The leaves are equally pinnated, and consist of many pairs of elliptical-lanceolate 
leaflets, acute at each end and serrated near the point. Their petiole is prickly.— -4 W^e»^. Gartenzeit.^ 5Iay 10th, 1851. 
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378. Ceanothus cuneatus. NuttalL A half-hardy evergreen shrub, from Cahfornia. Flowers 
white. Belongs to the Order of Bucktlioms. 
Raised from seeds received from Hartweg in June, 1848, marked Ceanothus sp., with white flowers, a shrub six 
or eight feet high, from the Sacramento mountains. It is tender, and will not live in the open border. It flowers in May. 
This shrub is described as follows by Mr. Nuttall :— ** A shrub six to ten feet high, with somewhat thorny greyish terete 
branches, very closely interwoven, sometimes forming thickets. Leaves half an inch or more in length, and about two 
lines wide; very rarely with one or two teeth near the extremity; the numerous regular, simple, and oblique veins rattier 
