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haps the south-west side may be as desirable as any. This border 

 should be made up with peat, containing abundance of white sand 

 and small white stones, for some of the Erica tribe, Azalea pro- 

 cumbens, Arbutus alpina, &c. These thrive most luxuriantly in this 

 hind of soil. We have observed them half-way up Ben Nevis, and 

 found there specimens of the latter plant in full fructification. Another 

 portion of this border should be composed of sea-sand and gravel, 

 with the addition of some peat well incorporated, for such as 

 Lithospermum maritimum, Glaux maritima, &c, which are not by 

 any means easily preserved, or cultivated in any other soil. Some 

 large and curious stones may be placed here and there along the 

 border." 



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NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE. 



New or Hare Plants. 



Abei.ia hupestus. A deciduous shrub, which has bloomed in the greenhouse 

 at the Horticultural Gardens, but it is supposed to be hardy. The flowers are 

 small, white, funnel-shaped, very sweet, and borne in racemes. The calyx is 

 rose coloured. 



AchihbneS ILLIC1POLIA. We have bloomed this, and apprehend it to be a 

 variety of A. longiflora, from which it differs in the darker colour of its flowers, 

 and the broader ray of white around their centre. The under surface of the 

 leaves too, are of a deep sanguineous hue, and their edges more deeply ser- 

 rated. 



Adenium Honghel. The HoNGHEr. Bush. Apocynese. PentandriaMono- 

 gynia. (Bot. Reg. 54.) It is a hothouse shrubby plant, a native of the East 

 Indies, found at Wallo and Senegambia, Delgoa Bay, &c. It forms one or two 

 fleshy stems like those of a Plumiera, or some of the Euphorbia*. It is a slow 

 growing plant. The flowers are produced in heads at the ends of the shoots. 

 Kach blossom is an inch and a half across, flesh coloured with bright crimson 

 edges, and a yellow eye. They are very handsome. 



^Eschinanthus Lobbianus. Mn. Lonii's y^sciiiNANTiius. Cyrtandracea. 

 Didynamiii Angiospermia. (Bot. Mag. 4260.) A native of Java, sent by Mr. 

 Lobb to Messrs. Yeitclv's. It is a straggling branching shrubby plant, the 

 gtem anil branches a deep purple colour. The flowers are produced in terminal 

 corymbous heads. The calyx is one inch long, a rich shining purplish-black 

 colour. The corolla is about an inch and a half longer than the calyx, of a 

 brilliant scarlet, ami the contrast with the dark calyx is strikingly beautiful. It 

 is a most desirable plant, deserving to be in every hothouse. 



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