646 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM, PART It. 
G. Don, Hed¥sarum retisum Hamilt., which is a shrub growing to the height 
oe 2 ts with large pinnate leaves, and leaflets nearly 2in, long, and half an inch 
road. 
Dicérma élegans Dec., Hed¥sarum élegans Lour., Zérnia élegans Pers., is an 
erect shrub, growing to the height of 3ft., with trifoliolate leaves; a native of 
China, near Canton. It was introduced in 1819, and produces its yellow flowers 
in July and August. 9 
Taverniera Dec. is a genus of 
shrubs, natives of Persia and Ara- 
bia, with simple and trifoliolate 
leaves, and rose-coloured or yellow 
flowers. T. nwmmuldria Dec. (Lég. 
Mém., 7. t. 52.), Hed¥sarum Oli- 
veri Spreng., produces its rose-co- 
loured flowers in Juneand July. It 
was introduced in 1826, and grows 
30 the height of 2 ft. 
Lespedéxa Michx. is a genus of 
plants, chiefly natives of Siberia 
and of NorthAmerica, several of which are suffruticose; but none of them have been introduced 
except L. frutéscens Pers. (Jac. Vin., 3. 89.), which is a native of Carolina, where it grows 2 ft. 
or St. high, and produces its purplish flowers in July and August. 
Flemingia semialata Roxb. Cor., 3. t.249., is a deciduous 
shrub, a native of Nepal, introduced in 1805. It grows 3ft. or 
4 ft. high, and produces its pale red flowers in July and August. 
E’benus crética L., AnthyYllis crética Lam., (Bot. Mag., 
t. 1092.) is a shrub, a native of Candia, with large reddish or 
purple flowers, having the staminiferous tube elegantly striated, 
which was introduced in 1737. It grows to the height of 2ft., 
and flowers in June and July. 
Alhagi Maurdrum Tourn., Hed¥sarum Alhigi L., Alhdgi 
mannifera Desf., Ondnis spindsa Hasselg., Manna hebraica D. 
Don, (Prod. Fl. Nep., 247.; Rauw. Itin., 1. p.94., icon.) is a 
native of the deserts of Egypt, Syria, Mesopotamia, and other 
eastern countries. It was introduced in 1714, but is seldom met 
with in green-houses. In its native country, it grows 2 ft. or 
3ft. high, and produces its purplish flowers, which are red- 
dish about their edges, in July and August. The manna of the 
Jews is generally considered to have been produced from this 
plant ; and the Arabians have a tradition, that it fell from the 
clouds upon it, to feed the Israelites in the desert. This, how- 
ever, is contrary to what is recorded in the Scriptures ; viz. 
that the miraculous manna appeared only on the rocks, and 
on the sand, and hence the surprise of the Israelites, who would not have been astonished if they 
had seen small portions of it on the plants; but who, finding it in such immense quantities on the 
ground, where they had never seen it before, could hardly believe it to be the same thing, and ex- 
claimed in Hebrew, “Man ?” that isto say What is it? whence, possibly, the name. The manna pro- 
duced by the alhagi is a natural exudation fromthe leaves and branches, which takes place only in 
very hot weather. At first, it resembles drops of honey: but it granulates with the atmosphere 
into particles of different sizes, but seldom larger than a coriander seed. It is collected by the 
natives, more especially about Taurus, where the shrub grows plentifully ; but it is not known in 
this country as an article of foreign commerce; the manna of the druggists being the concrete juice 
of the O’rnus europe‘a. The Alhagi Maurdrum ought to be in all extensive collections, as a plant 
of historical interest. A. cameldrum, a herbaceous species, introduced in 1816, produces a similar 
exudation, which is called Caspian manna, The plant is a native of the deserts of Tartary and 
Siberia, where it forms a food for camels; whence its name. (Burnet’s Outlines, 2. p. 659.) 


Clidnthus puniceus Soland., the Donia punicea of G.and D. Don, (Bot. Reg., 
t.1775., and our jig. 358.) is a New Wy 
Zealand shrub, introduced in 1832, or 
earlier. It was originally discovered by Sir 
Joseph Banks and Dr. Solander, in 1769, 
but was not noticed in any scientific work 
till a description of it was published in 
Don’s Miller, in 1832. It appears to have 
been first grown in England by Wm. Le- 
veson Gower, Esq., in his garden at Titsey 
Place, near Godstone, where it flowered 
in the summer of 1834. It was figured 
in the Bot. Reg., in July, 1835; and in 
the Hort. Trans., 2d series, vol. i. t. 22., 
in the same year. The seeds were sent 
home by the missionaries in New Zea- 
land, where it is called howain-gutukaka, Vag 
or the parrot’s bill; and where it is said 7, 
to grow to the size of a large tree, though the specimens in Britain appear 
quite suffruticose, and have not reached a greater height than 4ft. ‘ From 

