58 EXTRACTS. 



The plants by this time are well established for blooming, and 

 are soon fall of blossoms ; I then remove them from the frame 

 into a gi'eeuhou.se or stove. 



I had plants last year which were five feet high from the pots, 

 remarkably strong and bushy, some of the plants measuring 

 upwards of ten feet in circumference, and were covered with perfect 

 double blossoms. 



Taking off the blossoms as they appear, in the early stage of 

 growth, greatly assists the plants in growing, and the flowers finally 

 produced axe much larger, and in much gi-eater profusion, than 

 otherwise they would have been. 



St. Patrick. 

 March 26ih, 1833. 



PART II. 



EXTRACTS. 



Plants figured in the following Periodicals for April, 1833 : — 



Curtis's Botanical Magazine, 3s. 6d. coloured ; 3s. plain. Edited 

 by Dr. Hooker, King's Professor of Botany in the Univer- 

 sity of Glasgow. 



1. Erythrina vehitina,Ve1vetty Erythrina, class, Decandria ; order, Diadel. 

 phia, natxiral order, LegumiuosJE. Of this flue plant, the Editor says, I am 

 indebted to the Rev. R. T. Lowe, for the drawing made from the living plant 

 in Madeira, and also for the following description :-- 



The only individual of this noble species which I have seen in flower, is 

 growing amidst a plantation of other rare exotic trees, in the garden of the 

 Quiuta de Valle, near Funchal, at a height of three or four hundred feet above 

 the sea. Of its particular history and introduction, it is now impossible to 

 learn anything with precision. It was probably imported by a former pro- 

 prietor of the place, Mr. J. Mi'RDOCH, with many other rare exotics, inmates 

 of our stoves and greenhouses in England, which have now attained, in this 

 favoured spot (Madeira^, the size and luxuriance of forest treesj the present 

 plant is thirty feet high, and its trunk about two feet in girth. Flowers pro- 

 duced in June and July, large and handsome, in partial whorls of from four 

 to eight. Colour, bright orange red. Evythrina., from Erut'iros, red ; from 

 the fine red colour of most of the species. 



2. Psi/chutria daphnuidcs, Daphne like, Pcntandria, Monogynia, Rubiaceat. 

 An inhabitant of the margins of woods on the banks of Critbaue River, New 

 Holland, sent from thence to the Kew Garden, in 1829, by A. Cunningham, 

 -Fsq. It is a greenhouse plant, flowers small, white, blooms in April. Culture: 

 increased by cuttings, thrives in loam and peat. Psychotria, from psyche, 

 life, and trethro, to support; ou account of the powerful medicinal properties 

 of the Psychotria emetica. 



