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place that it is called the " Sevoeja/' 
moist situation during summer. It is 
June and July, and obtains a height of 2 or 3 feet 
It is probably a Imrdy perennial requirln 
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to be grown in jKsnt soil and n ratlior 
w lion in a state of rest. It flowem in 
450. Acacia cocHLEAEis. JFendland. {alias li[mo?n codxlcaxk Lam<n<Ucre.) A liaiKLsomc, 
liardy, greenliouse slirub, with balls of yellow fragrant blossoms, appearing in January nnd February' 
Native of tlie West Coast of New Holland. 
(Fig. 228.) 
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This very pretty species is one of those with the ph^l- 
lodes ending in a sharp point, and the flowers in spherical 
heads. It is nearly allied to A. lamgcra, from which it is 
distiuguished by its shorter and less acuminate phyllodes, 
which are indistinctly marked by three (or perhaps four) 
parallel veins, instead of being so filled by a crowd of 
veins as to have a regularly striated appearance. In the 
cold Conservatory of the Horticultural Society it is a 
favourite object. The late lamented Mrs. Molloy, whose 
death was so grievous a loss to science, in a memorandum 
now before us says, « Tliis is one of our handsomest shrubs, 
and renders the passing gale quite fragrant. About the 
Vasse River it exists in great numbers, forming thickets 
intermixed with Jacksonias. It has a rich profusion of 
flowers, and has long wreaths and garlands, studded with 
their blossoms, hanging from the tree, which usually 
attains the stature of 12 or 14 feet. It blossoms from 
September till the beginning of November, growing in 
black sand, and is most vigorous when there is partial 
moistui'e, as upon the banks of rivers." 
451. SPHiEROSTEMA PROPINQL'UM. Blmuc. 
[alias Kadsura propiiicj[ua WaUlcIi.) Aliotliouse 
climbing shrubs with pale yellow fragrant floMers. 
Native of JSTepal. Introduced at Kew. Flowers 
in June. 
Dr, Wallich, to whom we are indebted for our plant*?, 
discovered the species on Sheopore aud other hills at 
Lankoo, Nepal. Dr. Hooker found it frequent at from 
7 — 9000 feet in Sikkim-Himalaya. It is a handsome 
and fragrant shrub : the natives eat the fruit, which con- 
sists of many berries attached to a receptacle : the latter 
elongates itself as the fruit advances to matui'ity, when 
the whole resembles a long bunch of red currants. A 
much branching, twiggy, somewhat climbing shrub, 
glabrous. Leaves alternate, on short petioles, ovate, much 
and finely acuminated, denticulate at the margin, penni- 
nerved, rather glaucous beneath. Peduncles longer than 
the petioles, axillary, single- flowered, solitary, or two to 
five or six in a fascicle, bearing several remote appressed 
acuminate bracteoles. Male flowers with nine sepals, 
arranged in threes ; the tlu'ee outer smaller and calyci- 
form, the six inner petaloid, coriaceous, rotundate, spread- 
ing, pale yellow, corolloid. Female flowers, according to 
Dr, Wallich, with sepals as in the male. Ovaries very 
small, numerous, fleshy, ovate, imbricated into a subglobose mass. Style none, llvrries glo!)Ose. fleshy, numerous, 
emooth, scarlet, two-seeded, arranged in a cylindrical spike, six inches long, with the rachis slightly compressed, 
muricated as it were by the numerous tubercles to which the berries were attached. Although not conRpicuous as a 
showy flowering plant, yet the smooth leaves, general neat habit, and free growth of this species, make it worthy of 
cultivation. It is well adapted for training up rafters or on trelIis.work. The plant from which the drawing was "made 
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