258 MISCELLANY OF NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE. 



funnel formed, and the reflexed points of the five parted lobes are long and horn 

 like. It is well deserving a place in a collection of plants, especially for the 

 open air in summer. 



Diastema. ochrolenca. The pale yellow. (Bot. Mag. 4254.) Gesne- 

 riaceae, Didynamia Angiospermia. Sent from New Granada to the Royal 

 Gardens of Kew. It is nearly allied to Achimenes, probably intermediate 

 between Achimenes and Gesnena. It is a stove plant. The flowers are pro- . 

 duced numerously in panicled heads. Each blossom is about an inch long, the 

 tube cream colour, and the five parted (about the size of Achimenes coccinea), 

 mouth white. It is a neat and interesting species. 



Holuollia latifolia. Broad-leaved. Monsecia Hexandria. (Bot. Reg. 

 49.) A hardy, or half hardy shrubby climber, a native of Nepal. It has 

 bloomed against the open wall at the residence of L. W. Dillwyn, Esq., of 

 Sketty Hall, near Swansea. The flowers are white, in clusters, small. The 

 fruit, berries, are eatable. 



Hydrangea Japonica ; var. CiErulea. Japan Hydrangea. (Bot. Mag. 

 4253.) Dr. Siebold discovered the Japan Hydrangea on the Island of Nipon, 

 and abundantly cultivated by the Japanese. Two varieties are distinguished by 

 him — " Benikaku," with rose-coloured flowers, and " Konkaku" with blue flowers. 

 The one here figured is the blue, and is much handsomer than the rose- 

 coloured. It is a shrub growing three feet high, and succeeds admirably with 

 the same treatment as the common Hydrangea. It deserves a place wherever it 

 can be grown. 



Leschenaui.tia splendens. Splendid scarlet flowered. (Bot. [Mag. 

 4256.) Goodenovieae. Pentandria Monogyuia. It has bloomed in the col- 

 lection of Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co., at Exeter nursery. It is a shrub 

 from one to two feet hi^h, copiously branched. The flowers are produced in 

 corymbs of several blossoms. The size of each flower is about the same as L. 

 biloba, the blue, but of the richest scarlet, having a pale tube. It is a very 

 splendid flowering plant. 



Lilium sanguineum. Blood-red Lily. (Bot. Reg. 50.) It is said to be of 

 Japan origin. It is a halt-hardy species, growing about half a yard high, and 

 blooms in May and June. The fine erect flowers are of a vivid orange-red 

 colour with dark spots, not quite so large as those of the old orange lily of the 

 gardens. Each stein, however, produces but one flower. Mr. Gioom possesses 

 a most extensive collection of this species, and other hardy hybrids, &c, which 

 produce a fine display in his garden during summer. 



Jasminium Nudiflorum. Naked-flowered. (Bot. Reg. 48.) Jasmin- 

 aceae, Diandria Monogynia. Introduced from China by Mr. Fortune to the 

 London Horticultural Society. It is a shrub with trailing branches. The leaves 

 fall off early in autumn, anil at the axils of the leaves which have fallen, the 

 flowers are produced. Each blossom is an inch across, a rich yellow colour. 

 It appears to be a greenhouse plant, and blooms very t'reel) during the winter. 



* Jonopsidium acaule. Stemi.ess Violet-cress. (Bot. Reg. 51.) Sononym, 

 Cochlearia acaulis. It is an annual, found wild on the hills near Lisbon. It is 

 a hardy annual, quite dwarf, growing in any rich garden soil, and blooms pro- 

 fusely from April to October. Each blossom is about half an inch across, at 

 first coming out white but turn to a beautiful lilac. It does best in a rather 

 moist and shady situation, admirable for the edging to borders, walks, &c, also 

 does well in a suitable place on rock-work. It has bloomed in the garden of the 

 London Horticultural Society. 



Talauma Candollii. De Candoi.i.e's. (Bot. Mag. 4251.) Magnoliaceae 

 Polyandria Polygynia. (Synonym Magnolia odoratissima, M. pumila.) A 

 charming stove shrub, a native of Java. Grown in a pot it becomes about three 

 feet high, in Java fifteen feet. The flowers are produced solitary, terminal, 

 drooping, cream-coloured, fragrant. Each flower about nine petals, and three 

 to four inches across. 





