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Nursery, without any history of its introduction. The ovary is remarkable for producing at its base, in all the 
flowers we examined, simple or branched subulate filaments, which from their position may be considered abortive 
stamens.^ A moderate-sized shrub, with very coriaceous, evergreen, oblong leaves, gradually acuminated at the point and 
then ending in a mucro, the base cordate, footstalk very short, glabrous on both sides, miuutely reticulated beneath. 
Raceme sohtary, from the upper axils of the leaves, much longer than they, nearly erect, very handsome. Rachis 
and pedicels red, indistinctly rugulose (under a glass) with very minute acicular bracteoles. Calyx red, deeply five- 
cleft. Corolla bright scarlet, between ovate and urceolate, very thick and fleshy : limb moderately large, of five acute 
spreading lobes. The species thrives m light peat soil well drained. It sliould be placed in a cool shady house or pit, 
especially in summer, for, like the generality of Ericaceous plants from elevated regions, it is apt to suffer by full exposure 
to the sun of tliis climate.— £o^ Mag,, t. 4593. 
433. Tuop^OLUM sPECiosuM. Endlicher &- 
A hardy climbing perennial, with briHiant 
scarlet flowers, native of Cliiloe and Patagonia. Blossoms all the summer. Belongs to the Order of 
Indian Cresses {Troj^aolace^J . Introduced by Messrs. Veitch in 1847. 
Among the garden treasures imported from the temperate parts of South America, this is one of the most valuable 
and least known. It scrambles up sticks or bushes to the height of five or six feet, and bears an enormous quantity of 
scarlet flowers among a tendef pale green foliage. In the winter it dies down to the perennial rojts. It has been well 
figured in the Botanical Magazine, t. 4323^ but the colour there does injustice to the plant, which, At a distance, looks 
like a mass of the scarlet cloth from which soldiers' jackets are made. 
The first discoverer of it was Mr. Poppig, who found it in tlie subandine 
regions of southern Chile. Mr. Lobb says that it inhabits ^' cool shady 
places^ often covering the branches of shrubs, and displaying a profusion of 
dark crimson velvety flowers." The words in italics are, no doubt, the 
key to the cultivation of the species. It can scarcely be said to be much 
known in cultivation, although introduced for four years. No doubt it has 
been generally lost ; perhaps, as in our owu case, by giving it a warm 
sunny border. The experience of Messrs. Veitch shows that it cannot bear 
direct sunshine, or exist in a soil subject to dryness. With them it runs 
about in an American border, under a north wall, where the noon-day sun 
never reaches ; its creeping roots force their way through the neighbouring 
gravel walk, and the strong vigorous shoots form so compact a mass of 
flowers and leaves, that the wall seems as if lined ^vith scarlet cloth. There 
is no question that the plant is perfectly hardy, if the border where it 
grows is rather damp, and if a few leaves are used to shelter the roots in 
wiuter. 
434. rAGOPYR.UM CYMOSUM. Meisuer. [alias Polygonum 
emarginatum Walllch ; alias P. acutatum Lehmann j alias P. 
cymosum Trevlmnus.) A hardy perennial^ with white sweet- 
scented flowers, from jN^epal. Blossoms in autumn. Belongs 
to the Order of Buckwheats, Introduced by the East India 
Company. (Fig 219.) 
This is a fine-looking peren- 
nial creeping-rooted plant, with 
stout erect stems 3 feet high. 
The leaves are triangular and 
tapering to each angle, with a 
cordate base, large and flat, 
forming an excellent relief to 
large spreadingcymose panicles 
of pure white flowers, resem- 
those of the 
bling 
common 
Buckwheat {Fagopyruni cscu- 
lentum)y and like them suc- 
ceeded by triangular fruit with 
w-inged angles. Flowering in 
the autumn, sweet-scented, and quite hardy, tliis species U particularly 
well suited to decorate shrubberies, and places where plants of a stouter 
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