BRIEF NOTICKS OF SEW OR RARE PLANTS. HI 



present too small to produce their flowers and fruit ; * and it will probably be some 

 time before its true merits are known. The leaves are of a rich shining green, very 

 much toothed, but, in our specimen, quite destitute of the spines so conspicuous on 

 the holly; and the specific name is, therefore, so far inappropriate. The flowers are 

 borne in racemes, like those of the common Bird Cherry of our shrubberies, and are 

 succeeded by blackish fruit, like small plums, which are highly esteemed by the 

 natives of the country where it is found, and which Hartweg, who discovered it, 

 describes as having a fine flavour. It is very hardy, but apparently of rather slow 

 orowth. It is highly probable that this valuable shrub will give rise to a race of 

 evergreen plums, possessing its handsome foliage, with the larger fruit of the 



commoner species. 



Echeanbia Ternielora. {LMacw.y-A very desirable tuberous-rooted herbaceous 

 plant, introduced from Mexico to the collection of Sir Charles Lemon some years 

 since, and which ought, therefore, to have become common by this time. It is a 

 greenhouse plant, but does well in the open air during summer, and may be treated hke 

 the Commelina ccelestw. The flowers are produced in a long spike, in long succession 

 five or six being expanded daily during July and August. They are about an inch 

 across, and of a golden yellow colour. As the plant ripens seed, we are surprised 

 it is not more generally diffused. 



Lilium Wallichianum. (LiUoce*.)— This highly-interesting addition to the Lily 

 tribe, has flowered during the past month at Messrs. Henderson's of the Wellington 

 Nursery, and is, we believe, the first specimen which has blossomed in England. 

 The bulb being young, the plant was only of moderate height, with lance-shaped 

 leaves resembling those of the Japan Lily. The flower is of a delicate primrose, 

 of very large size, the tips of the segment being curled back, but not to such a 

 degree as in Lilium lancifolium. The anthers are of a bright red tint; and this 

 contrast produces a striking effect. Although at present grown in the greenhouse, 

 there is no doubt that, coming from Nepaul, it will prove as hardy as the Japan 

 Lily, and most of the other species. 



Paulownia Imperials. (Scrophulariacece.)— This noble tree has recently flowered 

 at Bishopstowe, the residence of the Bishop of Exeter. Many specimens of it 

 exist in this country; but it frequently receives so much injury from the spring 

 frosts, that it will not succeed well in exposed situations, or far north of London. 

 It greatly resembles the common Catalpa, having, like that, large heart-shaped 

 foliage, and erect spikes of flowers of a pule purple colour. They appear rather 

 before the leaves, which detracts somewhat from its value. 



Pentstemon Khu.kkmannii. fScrophuUriacea.J— This very beautiful plant is a 

 variety of the Ventutemon spemsum, figured in our second number. The flowers are 



. Bince the above waa written, we learn that some of the plants in the neighbourhood of London flowered 

 during the present season. 



