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GLEANINGS AND OEIGINAL MEMOEANDA. 
The 
423, Philesia buxifolia. Lamarck. A half-hardj shrub from Chiloe and Patagonia, with stiff 
deep green leaves and rich crimson tnbular flowers. Belongs to Philesiads, Blossoms in September. 
Introduced by Messrs. Veitch and Co. 
Among evergreen non-coniferous shrubs, this 5s probably the finest which Messrs. Veitch have imported, even although 
it should require a greenhouse. Dr. Hooker enumerates it " among the handsomest plants of the Antarctic American 
Flora I occurring along the coast, from the Strait of Magalhaens to Valdivia." Mr. Lobb writes of it tlius 
Philesia is a plant of very slow growth. In its native country it forms large masses on trunks of trees and rocks, 
throwing out long slender stems, which creep along beneath the decayed bark, and over rocks that are partly covered 
with soil. The roots, which proceed from the intemodes of the stem, are few and brittle, and very difficult to preserve. 
No plant that I have seen requires so much care in moving." In another place he writes :— " It is a splendid thing, 
and probably the most valuable plant of my collections. It often covers trunks of trees and rocks. Sometimes it grows 
erect, but when found in that state it seldom exceeds a foot in height, and is always growing about the base of dwarf 
stunted wood, similar to coppice in England. The flowers are produced near the extremity of the branches, have a 
campanulate form, and are sometimes not less in size than the common Tulip, of a deep rose colour. The petals are 
thicker in substance than any other flower that I have seen. I have traced it from the level of the sea to the snow line, 
and it flowers more freely at a great elevation."— 7o urn. of Hort, Soc, vol, vi. 
424, Physochlaoa grandifloha. Hooker. A liardy perennial with pale green flowers 
strongly marked with darker veins. 
not handsomer. Native of Thibet. 
Our garden is indebted for the seeds of this plant to Lieutenant Strachey, who gathered them on the plains of Thibet, 
at an elevation of 15,000 feet above the level of the sea. Root probably perennial. Stem herbaceous, a good deal 
brancned, terete, clothed everywhere, as well as the foliage, with glandular down. Leaves alternate, petiolate, ovate, 
acute, pennmerved, thrice as long as the petiole. Panicle terminating 
leaves gradually passing into bracteas. 
It belongs to Nightshades, is nearly allied to Henbane, and is 
Pedicels elongated. Floral 
Flowers drooping. Calyx shortly campanulate, sharply five-toothed, in fruit 
much enlarged and elongated, becoming tubular or cylindrical, and then erect. Corolla more than an inch long, slightly 
curved downwards, between campanulate and infundibuli- 
form, the mouth spreading, the lobes short, rounded, ob- 
tuse ; the colour is yellow-greeii with a slight tinge of 
purple, marked with longitudinal purple lines connected 
by oblique transverse ones. A strong-rooted, hardy, her- 
baceous plant, thriving in any kind of garden-soil. It may 
be increased by dividing the roots, which should be done in 
autumn or early in the spring.— ^of. Mag.^ t. 4600. 
425. LiNDLEYA MESPILOIDES. 
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peculiarity 
Kmith. A fine, sweet-scented, evergreen, half- 
hardy bush, from Mexico. Plowers white. Belongs 
to the Eosaceous Order. Introduced by the Hor- 
ticultural Society. (Fig. 214.) 
This plant is an evergreen tree, of small size, looking 
very much like Mespilus grandiflora^ but with flowers as 
sweet-scented as the Hawthorn bloom. It belongs to a 
small set of Rosaceous plants, of which one, the Kageneckia 
cratmgifolia^ is occasionally seen in this country. The late 
Professor Don attempted to distinguish them as a peculiar 
natural order, but unwisely, and on erroneous grounds. 
That they are really nothing more than Rosaceous plants, 
is proved by this plant grafting readily on the common 
Thorn and the larger kinds of Cotoneaster, in which way it 
is propagated. But although Lindleya and its allies are 
by no means to be separated from Rosacew^ they form a 
peculiar gi'oup, remarkable for their capsular fruit and 
winged seeds, the latter a circumstance not hitherto 
observed in other plants of the order. 
3 its carpels joining together at the very base into a solid 
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