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430. Impatiens platypetala. Lindley, 
icrrima 
A handsome tender 
annual, from Tropical India. Mowers large, violet-purple. Belongs to the Order of Balsams. 
Introduced some years since by Messrs. Yeitch. 
This very handsome stove plant is not uncommon in gardens, to which it was introduced some years since by 
Messrs. Veiteh. It was well figured in the Botanical Register for 1846, under the name oi I . platypetala \ and has lately 
been admirably represented in i\\e Botanical Magazine (t. 4615) under the name of /. pulcherrimaj which must be 
cancelled. Sir William Hooker there speaks of it to the following effect : 
" One of the finest of the Indian Balsams. Mr. Dalzell found the plant near Warree, in the Southern Concon, 
Bombay, and seeds were sent to us in 1830.. The plants continued to bear flowers during most of the summer 
months. Like the other tropical species of Impatiens, a succulent, tender annual. The seeds should be sown in 
spring, and if placed in a gentle heat they will soon vegetate. When the young plants arc of sufficient strength, they 
must be potted singly in small pots, and duly shifted into larger ones as they increase in size, which they will do 
rapidly if supplied with rich soil and plenty of water, and kept in a close pit or frame. A few may be planted in the 
open air in a sheltered place ; but they are liable to suffer from too free an exposure to the winds and rain of this 
climate." — [To this we may add, that, when regarded as a stove annual, this species merits universal cultivation. It 
flowers all winter long ] 
431. PoDOCAEPUS NUBiGENA. Linclley. A beautiful hardy evergreen bush, or tree. Native of 
Southern Chile. Belongs to Taxads- Introduced by Messrs. Veiteh & Co. (Fig. 218.) 
P. mtbigena ; (Eupodocarpus) monoica foliis 
linearibus mucronatis subtus glaucis, pedunculis 
solitariis receptaculo oblique bilobo obovato brevi- 
oribus, fructibus oblongis oblique obtuse apiculatis. 
This is one of the '* Yews" mentioned by Mr, 
Lobb under Saxe-Gothoea (our No. xix,, p. 112), 
and in general aspect it sufficiently justifies the name. 
It is a plant with stiff, linear, deep-green leaves, 
having a broad double glaucous band on the under- 
side. Tiie male flowers are unknown. The fruit is 
dinipaceous, and grows singly in the axils of the 
leaves on very short stalks ; the receptacle is obovate, 
and obliquely two-lobed ; the nut oblong, slightly 
bossed, and curved inwards at the point. No species 
of Podocarp yet discovered agrees with this. P, 
Lambertij from Brazil, has leaves green on both 
Bides, and globose fruit. P. chilina has broader 
leaves, also not glaucous, and fruit with very long 
stalks. P, andina has the fruit in spikes. Messrs. 
Veiteh possess only two small plants of this species. 
Journ. of Hon. Soc, vol. vL 
432» Leucothoe neriifolia. De Can- 
dolle. {alias Andromeda neriifoha ScJiUch- 
tendaJd ; alias Agarista neriifolia Bon ; alias 
Leucothoe crassifoHa Be Candolle ; alias 
Andromeda crassifolia FuMj alias Agarista 
Polilii Bon.) A handsome greenhouse ever- 
green shrub^ with panicles of crimson flowers. 
Native of Brazil, Belongs to Heathworts 
(Ericacea:)^ near Andromeda. 
This handsome plant quite corresponds with 
what we believe to be L. neriifolia De Caud., first 
found by Sellow in tropical Brazil, then by Mr. 
Gardner in Minas Geraes, It is worthy of a place 
in every greenhou.se. Our flowering specimen was 
communicated by Mr. Cunningham of Coraeley Bank 
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