74 NOTES ON NEW OR RARE PLANTS. 



the entire year. Mr. Purdie, the collector, sent it to the Royal Gardens 

 fiom New Grenada. It well deserves to be grown in every collection 

 of ornamental plants. 



All the kinds are easily cultivated. The most vigorous growers 

 should have a rough compost of rich loam and peat, equal parts ; 

 the others, a more rich loam, and only one-third of peat. Cuttings 

 strike freely in sand. 



NOTES Ox\ NEW OR RARE PLAxNTS. 



Anemone Japonica — Japanese Anemone. 



EanuiiculacetB. Poli/andria Polygynia. 



This showy species was forwarded by Mr. Fortune, from Shanghae, 

 the .Japanese part of China, to the Horticultural Society, and it has 

 bloomed in the Garden at Chiswick, in the greenhouse. Dr. Siebold 

 states it inhabits damp woods on the edges of rivulets, on a mountain 

 called Kifune, near the city of Mako, in Japan. It is a perennial plant. 

 The flowers are much like a single-blossomed Dahlia, each flower being 

 about three inches across, of a rich lively-rose colour, having a white 

 centre, surrounded by a yellow circle. It blooms freely, and is very 

 showy. The flower stems rise to about half a yard high. It is now 

 found to flourish in the open ground, and in masses produces a pretty 

 effect. Figured in Pax. Mag. Bot. 



Brunfelsia nitida : var Jamaicensis. 



Scroplmlurince. Didynamia Angiospermia. 



An erect shrub, four feet high, wliich was sent by Mr. Purdie to the 

 Royal Gardens of Kew, wlicre, in the stove, it bloomed. Each flower 

 is aljout four inches across, yellow, and lias much the appearance of a 

 yellow iEnothera. Figured in Bot. Mag., 4287. 



Clematis tubulosa — Tubular-flowered. 



lianunciilacex. Polyandria Poli/gynia. 



It is a native of China, a hardy perennial, of an erect habit ; the 

 flower stems rise about two feet high. The flowers are produced 

 numerously in terminal heads, of a rich purple-blue outside the tube, 

 and the four parted revolute divisions of the top are edged with white. 

 It well merits a place in every flower garden. Figured in Pax. Mag. 

 Bot. 



Convolvulus italicus — Italian Bindweed. 



Convolviilacea. Pentandria Monogynia. 



It is a hardy climber, a perennial species, and a native of the South 

 of Europe and North of Africa ; also it grows in vineyards, and deco- 

 rates the hedge-rows in Egypt and Algiers. The flowers are a beau- 

 tiful rose colour. Each blossom is about two inches across. It is a 

 A ery suitable plant for the rock work, and may be had in the London 

 imrseries. 



