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forms a dense bush, half a yard high, and blooms annually. The flowers are of 

 a yellowish white, salver shaped. Each blossom is about an inch across. The 

 leaves are about an inch and a-half long and half an inch broad ; evergreen. 



Fuchsia integrivolia. — Entire-leaved. (But. Mag. 3948.) Synonyms. 

 F. affinis ; F. pvril'olia; F. radicans. Having recently noticed and figured this 

 new and interesting species of Fuchsia, we should not again have noticed it, but 

 from the circumstance of there existing such confusion relative to its correct 

 name, for we have found it in collections under the various names above given. 

 Sir William J. Hooker states, in the Botanical Magazine, that its proper name 

 is F. integrifolia, and gives the following interesting particulars relative to it : — 

 " It is very common in the Organ mountains of Brazil, growing at an altitude 

 of from 3000 to 6000 feet above the level of the sea. In the virgin forests it is 

 most common by the sides of streams, climbing up the stems of the large trees, 

 and flowering among the branches. I have seen it, says the discoverer, Mr. 

 Gardner, reach to the height of 40 or 50 feet, giving the trees to which it has 

 attached itself the appearance of being Fuchsias themselves. At an elevation 

 of from 5000 to 6000 feet it loses its climbing habit, and becomes a bush, vary- 

 ing from two to four feet high. In this country we observe that, in situations 

 where it is allowed, it assumes the climbing habit ; this is the case where it is 

 grown in a hot and moist atmosphere ; but when grown in cooler places it forms 

 a bush, as F. macrostemma, and others." 



Pimei.ea spectabii.is. — Showy. (Bot. Mag 3950.) Thymeleae. Diandria 

 Monogynia. A shrubby plant, with long narrow leaves. The heads of flowers 

 terminal, more than two inches across. They are of a reddish tinge before ex- 

 pansion ; but when expanded, nearly white, very hairy. We have recently seen 

 some fine specimens exhibited at the various shows in and around London. It 

 is an interesting species, though not so showy as P. rosea or decu^sata. 



Luculia gratissima. — Fragrant Luculia. (Bot. Mag. 3946.) We have 

 before noticed and figured this fine plant ; and, in order to bring it into that 

 notice and extent of culture it so deservedly merits, we introduce it again to our 

 readers, and insert Sir W. J. Hooker's remarks upon it, as given in the Botanical 

 Magazine for June, where there is a most splendid figure of it given, a head of 

 bloom being 11 inches in diameter, each expanded blossom being more than an 

 inch and a-half across, of a rosy-pink colour: — 



" It is impossible, says Dr. Wallich, to conceive anything more beautiful than 

 this tree when covered with its numerous rounded panicles of pink-coloured, 

 very fragrant, large blossoms. It is a native of Nepal and Silhet, in the former 

 country growing in great abundance on Nag-Urjooro and some of the otber 

 smaller hills in the valley ; also at Bechiako and Koolakan ; it delights in 

 exposed, rather naked, situations, flowering, according to the locality in which it 

 is found, nearly the whole year through. 



" I can well conceive that the plant deserves this praise from what I saw of 

 it, in a comparatively small specimen, in the greenhouse of Mrs. Marryatt, at 

 Wimbledon; and still more so from the account with which Mrs. Wray has 

 favoured me of the individual from which the specimen here figured was 

 taken: — 



"' The plant of Luculia from which the drawing was made had been culti- 

 vated by us in a pot fur two years, and with tolerable success ; but observing it 

 to look very sickly, I determined to try the experiment of putting it into a large 

 box, of which there are several, fitted at the back of a house, intermediate between 

 the greenhouse and stove, and designed for climbers. This was done in March, 

 and the plant soon began to show, by its vigorous shoots, how well this change 

 of tieatment suiied its nature. By the month of October it had attained a 

 height of six feet and a-half, each shoot being terminated by a head of flowers, 

 similar to what was sent to you ; the larger bunches, of which there were 24, 

 measuring two feet in circumference, besides 30 smaller ones. 



" I am inclined to believe that the atmosphere of a stove is too hot and close, 



and that of the greenhouse too cold and damp, considering the late season at 



which the Luculia flowers ; whereas, in the place to which it was removed, we 



frequently give fire heat by day during autumn, thus allowing air to be admitted 



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