GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 
Leeds مااع‎ PE green or VENTRE rgreen; one has the two margins and another one margin pe 
Petals blue, e enir eu ewe — =) ir (a fov of them herbaceous at the عوط‎ k fim the 
centre), obo tha d with , the inner ones rather shorter than the outer, 
linear- lanceolate, all of ‘dak iis Stamens exceedingly ا‎ more so than I have seen in any N 
filif 
us 
igma ; filaments ; Short, ineurved (n 
hæaceo 
one of them petaloid) ; 
à a SO covered by the copious stamens that the stru 
without destroying the specimen.—Enough is here icd in proof that the species is very distinet from any of the 
hitherto blue Water-Lilies, or of the genus.— Bot. Mag., t. 4647. 
547. LONICERA FRAGRANTISSIMA, A sub-ever- 
green hardy shrub. Flowers whitish, very sweet- 
scented. Native of China. Belongs to Caprifoils- 
, Introduced by the Horticultural Society. (Fig. 268.) 
A L. fragrantissima (CHAMECERASUS) ; glaberrima, foliis sem- 
/ pervirentibus oblongis acutis subtus pallidis, pedunculo nu- 
tante petiolo longiore, bracteis herbaceis lineari-lanceolatis 
ovario longior ribus. 
his is one of the plants obtained from China by Mr. 
Fortune, while in the service of the Horticultural Society, but 
has not flowered in the Chiswick Garden, where it has been eii 
known as a perfectly hardy evergreen “ Caprifolium.” In Janu 
us specimens, with the following note, on the 13th April (es 
“The plant which affords me these flowers has been in bloom = 
since January. It occupies an east wall, and has enjoyed no particular advantag 
il 
Its evergreen foliage distinguishes it from “al the previously known species of the 
ham:ecerasus division of the genus. 
548. ACACIA MARGINATA. R. Brown. (alias A. trigona Alph. De 
Candolle.) A handsome greenhouse shrub, with dark green leaves, 
