pairs of small oblong leaflets, when dry revolute at the margin. Peduncle rather longer than the leaves, axillary, slender, 
86 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 
here are two stamens, concealed within the tube of the corolla, with stiff, short, erect filaments, and fleshy 
Maii The ovary is ovate, two-celled, with a pair of ovules in each cell. e stigma is m two-lobed and sessile. 
e find no tendency to the separation of the petals into two الس‎ on the contrary, they form a true monopetalous 
diii but they are easily torn asunder without laceration. Mr. Fortune has dici us with the following 
memorandum concerning this plant :— 
* A dwarf shrub, obtained in a garden near Foo-chow-foo, on the river Min. Its Chinese name is Ting-heang. It is 
| deciduous in winter, and produces its snowy white flowers probably in spring. The flowers are singularly fragrant, and 
| on this account it is much prized by the natives in Fokien. Although discovered in Foo-chow, I suspect it has been 
brought there from a more northern latitude, I took some plants north to Shanghae, for Mr. Beale's garden, and I 
It is just possible this plant may have been brought from the Loo-choo Islands, or Japan, in the trading junks which 
Foo-chow every year. The Chinese propagate it by grafting on Olea fragrans. It will be Pere however, to 
choose some other stock for it in this country, as it may probably be found a hardy plant in our clim 
554. Popocarpus NERIIFOLIA. Don. A greenhouse evergreen shrub, native of Nepal. Delongs 
to Conifers. Fruit fleshy, orange-red. Introduced by Dr. Wallich. 
With us this forms a good-sized greenhouse shrub or small tree, with very copious dense evergreen foliage, and in 
a state of fruit really handsome from the copious purple-red Ben receptacles of ihe seed, which are produced in the 
winter months, It appears to be a mountain plant, and it is not impossible but it may prove hardy enough to bear the 
open sg against a wall It is with us treated like the Australian and New Zealand plants. inis m — spp 
very apt to coalesce, and the receptacles then to bear two berries; and even when there is on 
to be ein unnaturally enlarged, and to be ene deformed. The st amenta are described frat Dr. Wallich's dried 
specimens in our herbarium. The female fructification is produced in the winter months. "The fleshy receptacles are 
said to be eaten by the Nepalese. Our plants are from six to seven feet high, much branched, the branches copiously 
furrowed from the decurrent petioles, Leaves scattered, approximate, sometimes appearing verticillate, in whorls of 
three to five, narrow, lanceolate, acute, coriaceous, the margins slightly revolute, dark green above, pale and slightly 
glaucous beneath, below tapering into a very short decurrent petiole. Male amenta axillary, sessile, solitary, cylindrical, 
slender, an inch or more long, arising from : de fena ine und o dssdo Anthers numerous, imbricated, two-celled, 
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much acuminated, at length reflexed. Peduncle o axillary, single-flowered, about half an inch long. 
Receptacle of the fruit oblong, fleshy, soon vt maroon in breadth, with an oblong depression at the top, and 
variously A d on each side, from pale yellow-green becoming orange-red, at length deep purple, slightly glaucous, 
bearing a s subulate recurved bractea at the base. At the apex it bears an obovate glaucous-green seed. Sometimes 
two or more e receptacles grow from the same peduncle, and such a one we have seen to be proliferous at the اسع‎ 
| — Bot. Mag., t. 
| 555. rdc WanczEwrrzu. Klotzsch. A stove epiphyte, from Central America, belonging 
_ to Orchids. Flowers pale waxy yellow, with a few red dots. Flowered in Berlin in April. 
. Warezewitzii ; pseudo-bulbis ova em compressiuseulis, leviter suleatis, apice 3—4-foliatis ; foliis maximis, 
late lanceolatis, subplicatis, utrinque attenuatis ; scapo basilari pendulo multifloro ; floribus carnonilic, pallide cerinis, 
apertis, ge sae — ee impenetatis, brevissime acutis, extus convexis, duobus inferioribus oblique ovatis, 
ti i i cum 
kc enne elliptie sequilongis, obovatis, obtusis, basi attenuatis "ipei rubro-punctatis ; labello 
columna continuo, crasse so, hypochilio oblongo concavo, intus puberu o, rubro-punctato, extus ad apicem 
| didis epichilio e e cust, tripartito, adscendente, basi ED ER atro-purpureo, quadrangulato, 
a inaliter unicostato, apice truncato, inflexo, lobis lateralibus latis, truncatis, erectis, intus ae 
| i io aureo, obovato, plano, patente; columna elongata, و تسج‎ albida, dorso pilosa, intus versus basi 
| má pan I alis suban angust is.— Klotzsch. 
| in the opinion of Dr. Klotzsch, a well-marked new species. The scape is pendulous and many-flowered ; 
the Pe rather fleshy, pale wax-colour, spreading open ; the sepals not dotted ; di petals dotted with red, as is the 
lip at the base; its appendage is dark purple and quadran gular; its middle lobe golden yellow. It was sent by 
. Warezewiez to M. Mathieu, nurseryman, Berlin, with whom it flowered last April.—Allgem. Gartenzeit., 1852, p. 145. 
996. ACACIA Cycnorum. Bentham. A greenhouse shrub, much like r pulchella, Flowers 
yellow. Native of Swan River. Introduced by Messrs. Lucombe & Pince. 
. Cycnorum, as its name implies, is an inhabitant of the Swan River settlement , Where it appears to be common ; 
and Meisner gives two varieties: but Mr. Bentham is rather inclined to think that this Pat to be وما‎ along 
with A. lasiocarpa and A. hispidissima, among the varieties of = pulchella of Mr. Brown. Be that as it may, it is a 
very greens plant, and deserves a place in every greenhouse or conservatory where early flowers are requi 
eine o to three feet high, with rather slender and iiid terete n branches, clothed with somewhat dense 
t a hae Spines none in our specimens, Leaves alternate, bipinnate. Petiole very short, without gland (in 
it we have examined). Rachis hairy. Pinne two pairs; the lower pair each with three, the upper with four, 
