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the reputed species of this very genus, we see in our herbarium the Ruellia 

 trivialis, graudiflora and longiflora of Salzmann, all from the woods of Babia, 

 every one of which is a finer species than even this. Nor are the East India 

 species inferior, as is attested by the numerous kinds of Golufussia, Strubi- 

 lanthes, Dipteracauthus, &c, with which botanists are familiar only, however, in 

 their dried gardens. As they are easily propagated and grown, all these would 

 be real acquisitions, and might easily be had. This species requires to be kept 

 in a stove, and being a plant of free growth, will succeed in almost any sort of 

 soil: During summer an ample supply of water should be given to its root, 

 and syringed over head once or twice a day. After flowering it should be cut 

 back to secure a supply of young shoots from the bottom, for flowering the fol- 

 lowing season. This may be done advantageously once or twice, but for such 

 free-growing plants it is best to renew them every three years. In winter when 

 syringing would be injurious, it will be necessary to keep up a humid atmosphere, 

 as this plant is very liable to be attacked by red spider. It is easily multiplied 

 by cuttings of young wood under ordinary treatment. — Sot. Beg. 



Sedum Kamtchaticum. Hardy Perennial. A handsome herbaceous plant, 

 with yellow flowers like those of Sedum Aizoon, which it much resembles in 

 habit. The leaves are red edged, and the stem has also a strong stain of that 

 colour. It requires a light soil and dry situation. It flowers from June to 

 August, and proves to be a fine showy plant for rock-work, where it blooms 

 freely and remains long in succession. — Journ. Hort. Soc. 



Rhynchospermum jasmixoides. Jasmin-like. A greenhouse climber. A 

 slender climbing evergreen shrub, rooting along its branches, wherever it touches 

 a damp surface, like ivy. The flowers are white, deliciously sweet-scented, and 

 produced in small irregular corymbs on the ends of peduncles considerably 

 larger than the leaves. Their calyx consists of five narrow smooth convex 

 sepals, rolled backwards, and much shorter than the tube of the corolla, with a 

 very shallow-toothed glandular ring surrounding the base of the latter. The 

 corolla is about three quarters of an inch long, pure white, salver-shaped, con- 

 tracted in the middle of the tube, with a partially spreading border, whose five 

 divisions are wedge-shaped, truncate, and twisted obliquely. — Journ. Hort. Soc. 



Cai.ystegia pubescens. Duwny Bindweed. Hardy Perennial. (Bindweeds.) 

 North of China. — This curious plant approaches very nearly to the C. sepium 

 or larger Bindweed of our English hedges, from which it differs in having 

 firmer and smaller leaves, much narrower bracts, and a tine pubescence spread 

 over every part. It is the first plant of its order that has been mentioned as pro- 

 ducing double flowers They are about as large as those of a double anemone, 

 but the petals are arranged with the irregularity of the rose ; they are of a pale 

 very delicate pink, and remain expanded for some days. The calyx is quite 

 unchanged. The exterior petals are very much lacerated and irregular in form ; 

 those next the centre are narrow, drawn together into a kind of cone; the next 

 central are completely concealed by those without them, and diminish till they 

 are mere scales, analogous to those which may be found in the first buds which 

 bur>t in the spring. Not a trace can be fouud of stamens or pistil. It is pro- 

 bably quite hardy if planted in a dry situation. It requires a rich loamy soil 

 and is easily increased by the roots. The roots very much resemble those of 

 the common bindweed (Calystegia sepium). It flowers freely in July and 

 August. It is a very handsome climbing plant, with large double flowers>, 

 which are produced freely. — Journ, Hurt. Soc. 



Ahei.ia florjblnda. Capiifoliacese. Greenhouse (or half hardy) shrub; 

 rosy pink. 



Azalea ovata. Ericaceae. Hardy (or half hardy) shrub; two vars., one 

 white, the other pink, bo.li spotted. — Journ. Hort. Soc. 



Azalea obtusa. Ericaceae. Greenhouse (or half hardy) shrub ; deep red. — 

 a. Mart. & 



A/. \ lmata. Ericaceae. Greenhouse (or half hardy) shrub : rose colour. 



— Jffunt. Hort. Soc. 



