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GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMOEANDA. 
Belongs to 
M. Schauer in referring this species to C, longifolia, a still less attractive plant, figured in the Botanical Eegistevy t. 864, 
and now apparently lost in gardens. The form of the leaves is quite different, as are their serratures, which in fact are 
apt to disappear altogether in C. longifolia, whose cymes of flowers are smaller, with more conspicuous teeth to a firm 
and fleshy, not as in this case thin and membranous, calyx. (7. longifolia is a southern plant, much more tender than 
this, which we believe occurs exclusively in Japan, whence we have wild specimens from Zuccarini, differing only in a 
looser and longer inflorescence and larger leaves. 
439. Pagus obliqua. Mirbel. A fine evergreen tree from Soutliem Chile. 
Mastworts, Introduced by Messrs. Veitcli & Co- 
This is, probably, a hardy evergreen tree. Mr, Lobb says : — " It inhabits the slopes of the Andes, from the level of 
the sea, to the line of perpetual snow. It in general attains the height of forty to fifty feet, with a stem as straight and 
as smooth as the Pine." According to Captain King, as quoted in Hooker's "Flora Antarctica," this sort of Beech tree 
grows to a considerable size. The plant in cultivation grows freely in the open air at Exeter, and has a graceful appear- 
ance. In some respects the foliage is more like that of a Hornbeam than a Beech. The leaves are between lozenge- 
shaped and lanceolate, serrated, witli strong straight veins, and are of a beautiful pale gi^een colour, — Journ. of Ilort, 
Soc, vol, vi. 
440. Camptosema rubicundum. Hooker 8f Arnott. {alicis Kcnnedya splendens of Gardens^ 
and Meisuei^s Tlantm Freimanm, 1. 89 innotd.) A beautiful greenhouse twiner, of the Leguminous 
Order^ from South Brazil. Mowers scarlet. 
A very liandsome climber, long ago described from dried specimens in the Botanical Miscellany^ and for some time 
cultivated in Germany, and since in England as Kcnnedya splen- 
dens. It was so named, as we learn from Mr. Bentham, by 
Meisner, who cautiously observ 
" Originis ignotaj ;" while 
in Nova Hollaudia." It 
Dr. Walpers confidently says, ** II ab. 
has the habit of a New Holland Kcnnedya^ but it is a native 
of southern Brazil and the adjacent Argentine provinces. It 
is only lately that, being trained immediately under the glass 
of the Palra-stove, it has yielded flowers with us. The racemes 
remind one of those of Laburnum or of Wtdaria sinensis, but 
they are of a deep ruby-red cohjur, A climbing shrub of great 
length ; the older portions of the stem as thick as one's finger, 
and reticulated, as it were, with pits or hollows in the oblong 
areoles. Young leafy branchcj slender, terete, herbaceous, 
glabrous. Leaves distant, on long petioles, trifoliolate; leaflets 
petiolulate, oblong, or oblong-elliptieal, i*etuse, f;labrous, glaucous 
beneath. Racemes on rather long {>eduncles, compound, eight 
to ten inches in length, drooping, many-flowered. Calyx, with 
two small bracteas at the base, tu'jular-campanulate, some- 
what two-lipped, and irregularly f'-ar to six-lobed. Petals of 
the corolla deep ruby-red, nearly equal. Vexillum partially 
reflexed, ovate, clawed, with two blunt teeth at the base of the 
lamina. Alae and carina oblong, clawed, each petal with a blunt 
tooth at the base of the lamina. Stamens diadclphoub (9 and 1). 
Ox-ary linear, on a long stipes, and tapering into a subulate 
style, Legumcn three inrhes long, stipitatc, compressed, 
downy, acute. A stove-climber, well adapted for training up 
rafters or on trellis-work, and which grows freely, especially if 
planted in a bed of good rich soil. Where there is not sufficient 
room for it to extend, it moy be treated as a pot-plant, and 
trained upon a trellis fixed to the pot ; but we have not found 
it, either way, to flower y^vv readily. It may be increased by 
cuttings, placed in heat under a I ell-glass. — Bot, Maj., t 4008. 
This species is not very uncommon in Gardens, and was 
long since figured under its garden name in Paxton's Magazine 
of Botany. 
Its magnificent flowei*8 would 
its universal 
cultivation if the plant could but produce them. From the pre- 
ceding remarks it would seem to retiuire more 
than it usually receives. 
light and heat 
441. SxENocAitPus FoRSTEm. B. Brown. An 
