58 GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 
form 
ig bushes ten or twelve feet high. It is very handsome where there is room for it, its long narrow sabre-shaped 
anodes (leaves) having a bright colour and firm texture, and bending downward gracefully from singularly flexuose 
branches. The inflorescence is similarly zig-zag, much shorter than the leaves, and often forms an entangled mass of 
branches each of which is terminated by a yellow head about as large as the seed of the Sweet Pea. 
85. Cephalotaxus Fo&tuni. Hooker, A fine, and probably hardy coniferous shrub, with lone- 
of Bagshot. (Kg. 34.) 
China. Introduced by Messrs 
In the absence of a well-grown plant, little or nothing can be said of this tree, save that it is stated by Mr Fortune to 
grow to a he.ght of from 40 to 60 feet. Its branches are probably spreading or drooping, obscurely streaked or furrowed 
d.stichous, pale brown, slender. Leaves quite distichous, alternate or opposite, close together, 3 to 4 inches long, linear,' 
tapering a little at the base, much and gradually acuminate, one-nerved, dark full green above, paler beneath. A plant 
m the Bagshot Nursery stood in the open air during the last winter, without being in the least injured. As it increases 
from cuttings as readily as the common yew, and grows freely, we may expect to see this rare tree soon become 
common.— Botanical Magazine, t. 4499. 
Galanthus plicatus. Bieberstein. 
'mi 
in the Garden of the Horticultural Society in March 1850. 
Flowered 
T1, IS beautiful Snowdrop, although long cultivated in gardens, is hardly known to the public. There appears to be no 
doubt as to its specific difference from the common species, its leaves being very much broader, and, as it were, plaited, 
not flat its flowers be.ng larger, and the green on the petals far more conspicuous. In a horticultural point of view it is 
s .much finer thing than the old Snowdrop, just as hardy, and as easily managed.-./^™. Hort. Soc, Vol. v. p. 138. 
With a figure* r 
87. Cereus Tweediei. Hooker. An erect, round-stemmed, furrowed Cactus, covered with 
stiff spines, from among which arise handsome curved narrow orange tubular flowers, each almost 
8 inches long. From Buenos Ayres by Messrs. Lee and Co. ' Flowered at Kew, in September, 
1849. r 
About 1 foot to \\ foot high, and 1 inch in diameter, of a very glaucous green hue, simple, but increasing readily by 
onsets at the base. The shape is cylindrical, very slightly tapering upwards, numbered with many, about sixteen, 
moderately deep farrows perfectly straight, the ridges obtuse and even (not tubercled). Spine-tufts on the ridges close 
bfwn .'7* W f ♦ r° l ^^ maDy fa Cach tuft > four or fi ™ ■*«*«■ than the rest, white, blotched with 
toXe ll T? ° r ° Ur (ha,f t0 three -^ters of an inch long) are nearly erect ; a solitary stout one 
numetol t* ^ T 77 ° DeS > wbich are ^ite, generally, all point downwards. Flowers rich orange-crimson, 
Z^E^Z T? 3 1DCheS ^ ° UrVed UpWard8 ' the m0Uth obIi 1 ue - Ca * x - tabe toeW-ped, the 
ThecJvT^ t ' PI T ' ° Wer ° DeS CiHated With White hairs - Peta ' s s ™»> freely longer than the teeth of 
*^vJZEL?^F£ yi 7 against the upper 8ide of the tube > and there much lon g er than the flower » lower ones 
scarcely protruded. Anthers deep V^le.-Botanical Magazine, t. 4498. Will probably be a good breeder. 
« S a\ 3V T^ SPHjERICA - An evergreen tree from the north of China. Introduced by Messrs. 
btancbsh and Noble. (Fig. 35.) 
mcUibus^^L^K?^ f0U n ,° mnibUS s 1««™«formibu3 quadrifariis obtusis dorso fovea circulari notatis, ramulis 
gi-acihbus tetragoms obtusis, galbuhs sphaericis glaucis breviter pedunculatis 
are 3!—^ 1 ^ ^ ^ FortUne ' *» de8cribes * « a tre * 30 to 50 feet in height. The young branches 
with a cSrTt\t T- *l * m*' mme Slender than in the accompanying figure. All the leaves are minute, scaly, 
from dTntj 11 ir + , ^ Th ? fruitis q-te round, about as large as ihe ball of a pocket pistol. The species differs 
twice as "r I! inT, y ' "? DOt h f ^ My adCular Ieaves > and *«7 decide <% - the J size and form of its fruit, which 
* vvtjuo as i ar g e as in that species, ami r.nt a* «ii j « .. „ , . . * 
depressed 
Q 
An evergreen Oak, from the north of China. Imported by M< 
Standish and Noble. (Fig. 36.) 
supri' pSriLrsuo^W^ 8 iaa f ^\ fo ] iis ^riaceis obovatis petiolatis cuspidatis 
longioribns. ^ g ,auco -*<>™ntosis, glandibus spicatis obovatis cupula brevi tor 
u.„.„ ua cwr , u <.». obtusis nunc apice serratis 
cupula brevi tomentosa squamulos4 muito 
