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bushy, in most profuse bloom, at tlie Royal Gardens of Kew, last 

 April. Tiie flowers are produced in large branching- panicles, of a 

 pale yellow colour, which are delightfully fragrant, and perfumed the 

 entire house witli its Ilawtliorn scent. It deserves to be grown in 

 every greenhouse or conservatory. It is readily kept dwarf, by 

 pinching off the leads to induce lateral shoots. Figured in Bot. Mug., 

 4306. 



Berberis ilicifolia — Holly-leaved Berberry. 

 Beiberidece. Hexandria Monogijnia. 

 Tiiis beautiful and rare species was introduced into this country from 

 Fuegia, from the extreme part of South America, by the officers of 

 the antarctic \oyage under Captain Sir James Ross, and it has bloomed, 

 in Marcli last, in the Royal Gardens of Kew. The flowers are borne 

 in subcorymbosa racemes, several inches long. Each blossom is 

 globose, about half an inch across, of a very rich orange golden-yellow. 

 In its native country it grows to a shrub, about eight feet high ; the 

 wood being a pretty pale yellow. The berries are of a deep steel-blue 

 colour, of a singular gourd form. It is very likely to prove quite 

 hardy, and, should it turn out so, will be one of the most striking 

 ornaments for the slirubbery. 



COLLANIA DULCIS SwEET CoLLANIA. 



AmartjUidacea. Hexandria Mono-pjnla. {Sjn. Ahtrameria diilcis). 

 This very rare plant is said to be a native of Huallay, near Pasco, 

 in Peru, seeds of which were sent to the late Dean of Manchester, with 

 whom it bloomed in 1846. The stems grow about a foot high, erect, 

 each terminating with one or two drooping cylinder-shaped flowers. 

 Tlie tubular portion is about an inch long, and a quarter in diameter, 

 rosy-purple, witli a vivid green end. It is very neat and pretty, and 

 well worthy a situation in the greenhouse. 



Gardenia malleifera — Clapper-bearing. 



Ihihiacecp. Pentamlria Monogijnia. 

 Mr. Wliitfield brouglit plants of tliis new Gardenia from Sierra 

 Leone to the gardens at the Earl of Derby's, at Knowsley Park. It 

 is a hothouse slirubby jjlant, grows rapidly, and loves a higli moist 

 temperature. It begins to flower when two or three feet high. Tlie 

 flowers are produced solitary, terminal. Each flower is about six to 

 eight inches long, a creamy white, which changes to tawny. The tube 

 is slender, but the mouth is broad, bell-shaped. 



Gloxinia Fyfiana — Mr. Fyfe's Gloxinia. 

 A small specimen of this strikingly beautiful plant, which we intro- 

 duced to notice in our Magazine for March last, was exhilMted at the 

 Horticultural Society's show in Chiswick Gardens on the 19th ultimo, 

 and excited general attention by its peculiar novelty and beauty. It 

 fully verified all that has been said in its praise, and will soon occupy 

 a favouretl place in all collections. 



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