GLEAK1KGS AND ORIGINAL MEMOKANDA. 
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by the Horticultural bociety ot Uhent. The species is very handsome, and would look well among a collection 
the climate of which is precisely what it wants. — Flore des Serres t. 569. 
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, _ _ . „ MVM- wmMvaj ^.^ CAUiacL 1S utivt-n, ana some otners, treats at length of the plants usimll 
combined under the name of Dracaena. He forms the new genus Drac enopsis upon Bra t austral** of Hooker'- 
points out D. farea of Linnseus, or D. terminals of Jacquin, as the type of another which he afterwards names' 
Calodracon ; and he adopts the genus Charlwoodia. 
228. POUTLANDIA PLATANTHA. Hooker. 
unknown origin. 
A handsome white-flowered hothouse shrub of 
Belongs to the Cinchonads. Blossoms in July. (Fig. 110.) 
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fine variety ; " but they remark, that both in its foliage and in the flowers it differs considerably from that species. 
"It flowers," say these nur- 
serymen, "in a very dwarf 
state, and is almost always in 
blossom," an observation con- 
firmed by the continual flower- 
the summer of 
ing, during 
1849, of a small plant not 
more than a foot and a half 
high, which they sent to the 
Royal Gardens, and from 
which a figure was taken in 
July, 1850. A shrub, a foot 
and a half high, erect, branch- 
ed, smooth. Leaves opposite^ 
nearly sessile, elliptical-obo- 
vate, acute, evergreen, leathery, 
full glossy green, entire. Sti- 
pules broadly triangular, ob- 
tuse. Pedicels 
short, 
very 
axillary, solitary, often oppo- 
site. Ovary long 4-angled, 
2-celled ; cells with many 
ovules. Limb of the calyx of 
four spreading, leafy, lanceo- 
late lobes. Corolla white, not 
more than half the length of 
that of P. grandijlora, broadly 
funnel-shaped, approaching to 
bell-shaped, 5-ribbed. Limb 
of five spreading ovate lobes, 
their margins revolute. Fila- 
ments downy in their lower 
half. A tropical shrub with fine glossy leaves and showy white flowers, worthy of a place in every collection of woody 
stove-plants. It grows freely in a mixture of loam and leaf-mould or peat soil. It must be kept in a moist tropical 
stove, the necessary precautions of watering and shading during clear summer sunshine being carefully attended to. 
It is propagated by cuttings placed under a bell-glass, and plunged in moist bottom-heat. — Bot. Mag., t. 4534. 
229. Fortune's Double Yellow Rose. A deciduous half-hardy scrambling plant, with buff 
semi-doublr dowers, Pound cultivated in China. Introduced by the Horticultural Society. 
This is a straggling plant, with the habit of JR. am Mtt, but with handsomer though deciduous leaves. The branches 
are dull green, strongly defended by numerous short hooked prickles, without setae. The leaves are smooth, in about 
three pairs, bright shining green above, rather glaucous beneath. The flowers are as large as those of the Common China 
Rose, semi-double, solitary, dull buff, tinged with purple. The petals are loose, and the whole aspect of the flower that 
of a slightly domesticated wilding. The bush looks like a cross between the China Rose and some scrambling species, 
such as our European R. arvensis. That species being however unknown in Asia, the plant before us must have had 
some other origin, concerning which it is fruitless to inquire. In its present state this variety has little claim to English 
notice ; but it may be a good breeder, and would certainly be much handsomer in a warmer climate than ours. 
