18 MISCELLANY OF NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE. 



PART II. 



MISCELLANY 



OF 



NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE. 



New and Rare Plants. 



Anemone japonica. Japan Anemone. (Bot. Reg. 66.) Ranunculacea. 

 Polyandria Polygynia. A native of Shaoghae, the Japanese port of China. It 

 was sent by Mr. Fortune to the London Horticultural Society. It has bloomed 

 in the greenhouse in the Chiswick garden the past autumn. The flower stems 

 rise about two feet high, bearing numerous very showy blossoms. Each flower 

 is ahout three inches across, of a very rich purple, crimson and rose shades, with 

 a yellow disk of stamens, much the appearance of a semi-double Dahlia. It 

 inhabits damp woods on the edges of rivulets, ou the Kifune Mountain near the 

 city of Miako in Japan. Dr. Siebold says that it grows too at considerable 

 elevations on the mountains of the centre of Japan, and that it is much culti- 

 vated by the inhabitants for the sake of its vtry beautiful blossoms. It is ex- 

 pected to he quite suited to the open border during summer, and probably endures 

 winter too. It increases by offsets. It merits a place in every greenhouse or 

 flower-garden. 



Anthocercis ii.licifoi.ia. Holly-leaved. (Bot. Mag. 4200.) Scrophu- 

 larineac. Didyuamia Angiospermia. A native of the Swan River Colony, where 

 it grows on river banks. It has bloomed in the Glasnevin Botanic Garden, 

 Dublin. It requires a warm greenhouse in winter, but a cooler situation in 

 summer. The root is perennial; the stems woody at the base, growing to five 

 feet high, copiously branched. The flowers are bell-shaped, with a five parted 

 limb. The corolla yellow, the tube bell-shaped, greenish lines outside, but 

 within marked with deep blood-coloured ones. Each blossom is about half an 

 inch long, and three-quarters of an inch across. The plant blooms very profuse, 

 and has a very interesting appearance ; and as by pinching the ends of the 

 shoots lateral ones are produced, the plant may readily be made bushy, and be 

 brought into desirable limits. 



Campanula sylvatica. Wood Bell Flower. (Pax. Mag. Bot.) Cam- 

 pauulacese. Pentandria Monogynia. A native of Nepal, where it inhabits 

 moist and shady places. It is a dwarf growing plant, annual. The floweis are 

 about the size of the common way-side Bell flower of our own country, but stand 

 erect, and are more spreading at the mouth. They are of a rich deep blue with 

 a white eye. It makes a beautiful showy border plant. J. Allcard, Esq., of 

 Stratford Green, in Essex, has it in profusion. 



Cymbidium giganteum. The Gigantic. Orchidacea?. Gynandria Monan- 

 dria. A native of Nepal. Mr. Gibson sent it to the collection at Chatsworth. 

 The flowers are produced in nodding spikes of about two feet long. Each flower 

 is three inches across. Sepals and petals green streaked with brown and red. 

 Lip yellow with rich red spots around it, but the margin is white. It is a very 

 fine and interesting species. 



E VOLVULUS PURPUREA-CCEItULEUS. PuRPLE-BLUE FLOWERED. (Bot. Mag. 



4202.) Convolvulaceae. Pentandria Digynia. A very neat half-shrubby plant, 

 twiggy, grows about two feet high, perennial, producing a profusion of lovely 

 flowers, of the most intense blue colour with a white and red star-like eye. Each 

 flower is about half an inch across. It inhabits rocks near the sea in Jamaica. 

 It bloomed beautifully the past summer in the plant-stove at Kew. It is worthy 

 a place in every garden. 



