GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 
519. Irex Prrapo. Hort. Kew. (aliàs I. platyphylla Webb & Berthellot.) A hardy 
evergreen tree, with broad flat foliage, and bright red fruit. Native of the Canary Islands. 
Flowers white in June. (Fig. 257.) 
An old inhabitant of our greenhouses, but to all appearance perfectly hardy near London. The first published account 
of it is to be found in Plukenet’s Almagestum (t. 262), where it is represented under the name of * Aquifolium amplis- 
simis foliis ex insulis Fortunatis.” In the first edition of the Hortus Kewensis it was placed among other Hollies as Hex 
of 
Lamarck, p which we find no 
€— yap The Per- 
of 
sembles a broad, flat, roundish- 
leaved Holly, with little or no 
toothin h 
It is a truly noble evergreen. 
520. /ESsCHYNANTH, THE SPECIES OF. 
At p. 14, No. 482, we gave a list of the species of this genus ex- 
tracted from the Allgem. Gartenzeitung, where two kinds were name 
as doubtful. Concerning these, we have received the following memo- 
randum from Mr. Moore, of the Apothecaries’ Garden, Chelsea. 
M 521. /EsCHYNANTHUS DISCOLOR. Leaves elliptic, acumi- 
| nate, obsoletely sinuate-dentate, glabrous, fleshy, veinless. 
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