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GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA 
I 89. GORDONIA JAVANICA. HooTi 
r. A tea-like stove plant from Java. Belongs to the Natural 
Order of Theads. Flowers white, in the autumn. Introduced by Messrs. Rollison. (Fio-. 93, A . 
represents the calyx, style, and stigma.) 
Our Garden is indebted to Messrs. Rollison, of Tooting, for the plant of which a specimen is here figured. It was 
discovered by their collector in Java, probably in the mountains ; and has much the general habit of Thea or Camellia 
when its blossoms appear, in August and September. Our plant is about two feet high, branched, and generally glabrous' 
Branches terete. Leaves alternate, elliptical-lanceolate, coriaceous, evergreen, acuminated, entire, below taper-in* into 
a short petiole. Peduncles solitary, axillary, single-flowered, from the base of most of the upper leaves, and shorter' than 
the leaves, erect, bearing two or three deciduous, spathulate, green bracteas below the calyx. Calvx of five very concave 
rotundato-elliptical, erect, slightly hairy sepals. -*•«---- 
Stamens very 
Petals five, obovate, white, spreading, obliquely twisted. 
numerous. Ovary globose, obscurely five-lobed, five-celled, hairy. Style columnar. Stigma peltate, of five large, 
rounded, somewhat leafy, rays or lobes, the centre umbilicated. Fruit the size 
of a large garden-pea, globose, depressed at the top, half five-valved, woody. 
Not bemg aware of its locality, we have treated it as a stove plant ; but, judging 
from the nature of many of its allies, we may be right in presuming that it is 
from an elevated and temperate region, and if so, it would probably succeed in a 
warm greenhouse. It grows readily in loam and peat or leaf-mould, and is easily 
increased by cuttings.— Bot. Mag., t. 4539. 
^ 190. Nymphs a micrantha. Guillemin and PerroUet. 
Water-Lily from the Gambia, requiring a hothouse. Flowers 
showy, white. Introduced by the Earl 
of Derby. 
This very pretty Water-Lily was commu- 
nicated from the Tropical Aquarium of E. 
Silvester, Esq., the successful cultivator of 
Nymphmacece at North Hall, Chorley, Lan- 
cashire, in August, 1850. It was received 
by him from Chatsworth, but it appears to 
have been imported by Lord Derby, from the 
River Gambia. The long acuminated points 
of the leaves, and the viviparous axils of 
the lobes, are its most striking character ; 
and in these two important particulars, as 
well as in some others, this species agrees 
with a Senegambian one to which I have 
referred it, viz., the N. micrantha of Guille- 
min and Perrottet. If it does not coincide in 
all points— such as the number of stigmatic 
rays-it must be remembered that aquatic 
plants are very variable, and we must not lay 
too much stress on differences of that kind. 
It is true the authors describe the flowers as 
blue, or pale blue, but native authentic spe- 
cimens in my herbarium appear to be white 
Ihe leaf-stalks and flower-stalks both appear 
to be much lengthened (influenced, probably, 
by the depth of water in which they have 
grown),tinged withred,taper,smooth. Leaves 
also quite smooth, elliptic, round in outline, 
Partly entire, partly irregularly toothed, the 
lower portion cut into two deep, much acu- 
nunated, moderately spreading lobes, at the 
re-entering angle of which, as it were from 
the top of the petiole, gemma,, or little bulbs. 
appear and develope themselves into young plants 1 The underside of the leaf is pale green, tinged with pale purplish- 
