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Except for these abnormal formations, there is nothing else of great 

 interest about the plant, though, perhaps, I am the first who has 

 crossed these two large species, and hybridists know this is some- 

 what difficult to etfect. 



7. I beg now to submit a plant, of which I shall be glad if the 

 Society will give me the name, or the name of the genus it belongs 

 to. I cannot say from whence or from whom I received it. It is 

 very likely I may have raised it from seed from abroad, without 

 any name given to it. I was attracted to it lately, first, by the 

 fragrance of its foliage, and latterly by its umbels of coming 

 flowers, something like a Bouvardia, which it is not, as you. will 

 see from the thread-like filaments of one of its flowers now open. 

 You will please observe it is not so much the flower as the foliage 

 which is so fragrant, having the perfume of lavender or lemon. 



Note. — On afterwards communicating with Sir Joseph D. Hooker, 

 he at once found it to be Monardella odoratismna. 



8. Rheum Moorcroftianum. — I raised this plant from' seeds kindly 

 sent me from Kew, being collected in Afi'ghanistan by Dr Aitchison, 

 at elevations between 12,000 and 14,000 feet. This has shown 

 itself to be a very rapid grower, far outstripping R. nohile in this 

 particular. Eoyle, in his "Illustrations of Indian Botany," p. 315, 

 speaks of this Rheum as being superior for its purgative pro- 



'perties, and says — " Mr Moorcroft sent me some rhubarb, which, 

 for compactness of texture, colour, and j)roperties, was as fine as any 

 I have ever seen, from near Ladak, in 34° N". lat. and 77|° E. long., 

 a very cold region." It must, therefore, be quite hardy in our 

 climate. 



9. Veronica Chathaimca is from the island of Chatham, near I^ew 

 Zealand. It is not yet recorded in any of our botanical works. It 

 is a small prostrate shrub with wiry branches. The racemes are few 

 or many. The flowers are numerous, closely set, peduncles ^ inch 

 long. Corolla large, dark purple. This beautiful shrub has been 

 cultivated by Mr Travers in his garden at Wellington, where the 

 profusion of its dark flowers and prostrate habit has proved a most 

 showy addition to those plants adapted for the ornamentation of 

 rockwork or earth banks. Such is the account I have of it. I 

 raised it from seeds sent me from New Zealand. 



10. Veronica anomala, which I have also raised from seed sent 

 to me from 'New Zealand. This species is not recorded, so far as I 

 know, in any botanical work in this country. It is a dense-growing 

 alpine shrub got in New Zealand at an elevation of 3000 feet. 



