150 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 
convex, imbricated bracts, the lower of which have a leafy point. Two varieties were € one with bright rose- 
racts and blue flowers, the other with greenish bracts and white flowers. Among the less important 
inhabitants of the stove this may be regarded as a useful little plant, growing best in a warm moist air, attached to a 
block of wood, where it flowers in August.—Jouwrn. of Hort. Soc., vol. vi. 
630. ECHEVERIA quirensis. Lindley. (alias Sedum quitense Humboldt and Kunth.) A very 
pretty half-hardy succulent plant. Native of Peru. Flowers deep red. Belongs to the Order of 
Houseleeks. Introduced by Isaac Anderson, Esq. of no a 
A bright green smooth succulent plant, forming stiff erect stems about six inches high, clothed by. E ME 
spathulate leaves, with an almost circular base attached to i^ stem only by one bundle of fibro-vascular tissue. The 
flowers are in stiff close erect racemes, shorter than the lower bracts, which resemble in form the leaves, er taper less 
to nt — n five, longer than the pedicel, equal, linear, — — shorter than the corolla, which forms 
d pyramid, opening very slightly at the end into fi elobes. Of the ten miae five stand 
in iis of the petals, and five are distinct. This is evidently an Echeveria, as De Candolle surmised, and not a Sedum. 
the summer it does very well on rockwork out of doors, but it is probable that it should be mice as à green- 
house shrubby succulent plant, requiring the same kind of soil and treatment as Echeverias. It is easily increased by 
cuttings, and seeds, which it ripens abundantly, When grown out of doors, though pretty, it is not a very nia plant. 
It flowers in August. How it will look in a greenhouse is not ascertained as yet.—Journ. of Hort. Soc., vol. vi 
631. Vinceroxicum JAPONICUM. Morren and Decaisne. (alias Cynanchum flavescens Siebold.) 
A hardy herbaceous plant from Japan. Flowers ale yellow. Belongs to Dogbanes. (Fig. 306. 
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mueronate, nearly sessile. Flowers few, pale greenish-yellow, in nearly sessile cymes, with slender pubescent flower- 
stalks. A perennial, supposed to be hardy or half-hardy, growing best in the peat border, and increased by division of 
the roots when in a dormant State, It is, however, of no kind of horticultural interest. It flowers in July and August. 
—Journ. of Hort. Soc., vol. vii. We figure ees "idus for the sake of showing what sort of things are sometimes sent to 
this country as new and اجيج‎ Garden plant 
