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GLEANIXGS AND OEIGIiXAL MEMOEANDA 
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tubular crimson and yellow flowers. Native of Patagonia, Natural Order uncertain, 
by Messrs. Yeitch & Co. . 
Introduced 
There is so mucli resemblance between this plant and a common Holly, that if its leaves were not opposite, it might 
be mistaken for one when not in flower. Its blossoms, however, of which one has been prodnced in ilessrs. Veitch's 
Nursery, are almost 2 inches long, cylindrical, with a scarlet tube and a yellow border. As it naturally produces a great 
abundance of these bxniliant blossoms, it must be a most charming plant when in fine condition. According to Dr. 
Hooker, the plant extends to the Andes under the equator, at the elevation of 12,000 feet, to the level of the sea, in 
Staten Island, in latitude 53^ south. According to Mr. Lobb, it seldom grows more than 5 feet high ; and, from the 
places in which it is found, he thinks it may be hardy. It will be better, however, to consider it, in the first instance, a 
plant that retpires protection in winter. — Jottm, of Hort.Soc,^ vol. vi. 
408. Pernettya ciliams. Don. A hardy evergreen slirub from the mountains of South Brazil. 
Belongs to Heathworts. Berries rich deep purple. 
Introduced by Messrs. Yeitch and Co. 
In the nursery of Messrs. Yeitch there grows in the open air a dark-green low bush, with hard evergreen, ovate, 
serrated, wrinkled leaves, covered shghtly with stiff brown hairs on the under side. The branches are clothed with 
similar hairs. In appearance it is not unlike Vaccinium Arctostaphylos. The flowers grow in numerous erect dense 
racemes, and are succeeded by piles of deep rich, reddish brown, depressed umbilicate berries, with a smooth calyx, the 
base of whose sepals is gibbous, fleshy, and hairless. The stalks are, however, hispid, and about twice as long as a smooth, 
pale, cucuUate bract, which wraps round their base. The bush is said to have been obtained from Brazil, but it appears 
to agree altogether with the Pernettya dliaris of Don, said to be from Mexico, of which I have seen no specimen in 
the many collections from that country. Mixed with the bright rosy berries of P. mucvonafa and angmtifoUa^ this 
produces a very gay effect in the American border. — Journ. of Hori, Soc, vol. vi. 
409. PuiMULA i>^voLrcRATA. JFalUch. 
white. Trom the North of India. (Fig, 205.) 
A handsome, hardy, herbaceous plant. 
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When at rest this plant forms a large egg-shaped bud, which may almost be called a bulb. Early in the spring it 
tiirows up a tuft of smooth shining leaves, the colour and 
texture of Pilewort, which are immediately succeeded by 
a scape from six to nine inches high, terminated by three 
or four white, sweet-scented flowers, which are at first 
slightly yellow, and when dying acquire a tinge of blush. 
In form, the leaves are long-stalked, ovate, obtuse, wavy, 
and slightly toothed, Tlie mvoliicre is remarkable for 
having its base extended downwards into a sheath, in 
the same manner as in Thift. The corolla is about the 
size of a cowslip, with a fiat border, whose segments are 
round and two-lobed, and a pink tube which is a little 
longer than the angular calyx. It is a hardy perennial, 
growing about six inches high, in a soil composed of 
sandy-loam and leaf-mould. It will flower hi the opcii 
border about March, but earlier if kept in a cool green- 
house or frame. It is stated by Capt. Munro that he 
collected it at an elevation of 11,500 feet, growing in the 
neighbourhood of water. It will be a most desirable 
little i>lant for rockwork not too much exposed to a hot 
gun. — Journ. of HorL Soc, vol. i. 
410. EUCRYPHIA COEDIPOLrA. CuvaUillcS. 
A very fine evergreen hardy (?) shrub, with broad 
sessile heart-shaped leaves and large axillary 
flowers. Native of Cliiloe and Patao-onia. 
Belongs to Tutsans {Bypericacem) . Introduced 
by Messrs. Veitch & Co. 
We lately saw this noble plant growing in Uie open ivir in Messrs. Veitch's Nursery, It has a stiff hard- wooded habit, 
witnaowny branches. The leaves, which sit close together on the stem, are hard, like those of an eyergrecn oak, from 2 
to 6 mches lonjc* dark trreem oblounr. npni-lv cnaoJix. t.^«^* ^i..^„4 .„:^i- -v .n. ... x-_.i_. , .i , ° . 
