J 2 NEW OR RARE PLANTS. 



grown in the garden of the London Horticultural Society. Decandria Mo- 

 nogynia. Ericaceae Arbutus, from a>, rough, and boise, bush; in allusion 

 to the astringency of the fruit. 



2. Berberis dealbala, Whitened-leaved Barberry Shrub, growing from four 

 to six feet high ; very probably it is quite hardy. The branches are nearly 

 destitute of spines. The leaves are roundish, with spriug-teeth at their 

 edges. The flowers are yellow, produced very freely in many-flowered 

 dense racemes, or nodding clusters, about an inch and a half long. The 

 plant is a native of Mexico, grown in the garden of the London Horticultural 

 Society. Hexandria Monogynia. Berberidese. Berberis, from Berberys, its 

 Arabic name. 



3. Brassia Lancearm, Mr. Lance's Brassia. (Bot. Reg.) Another curious 

 Orchideous plant, from Surinam and the Brazils. The flowers are very fra- 

 grant, of a greenish yellow colour, spotted with dark brown. The petals are 

 very narrow, about two inches long, produced in a raceme of about ten 

 flowers upon each spike. It requires a very hot and moist heat, and, like 

 some others of this tribe of plants, will flourish in old leaf-mould. Messrs. 

 Loddiges cultivate the species. Gynandria Monandria. Orchidese. Bras- 

 sia, so named after the late Mr. Brass, a botanical collector of Sir .Toseph 

 Bankes's. 



4. Campanula hederacea, Ivy-leaved Bellflower. ( Bot. Gard.) A very 

 neat and pretty flowering dwarf Campanula, growing about three inches 

 high, and forming a green tuft on the surface of the soil. The flowers are 

 of a bright blue colour, and bloom from May to July. The plant makes a 

 neat edging for a bed or border, and did it continue in bloom much longer 

 than it does, it would be a most desirable plant for every flower-garden. It 

 is a hardy perennial. Pontandria Monogynia. Campanulaces. 



5. Ckrodendron hastatum, hnlberd-leaved. {Bot. Mag.) Dr. Waiucii 

 sent seeds of this plant into this country from the Calcutta Botanic Garden. 

 The plant is grown in the stove at Wentworth Gardens, where it bloomed 

 last summer. It grows about six feet high. The leaves are large, halberd- 

 shaped. The flowers are produced in a large panicle, spreading, tube very 

 long, and slender ; white. The blossoms are highly fragrant. The plant 

 will be a very great acquisition to a collection of hot-house plants. Didy 

 namia Angiospermia. Yerbenaceop. 



6. Dianlhus carthusianorttm, Carthusian Pink. A native of France and 

 Italy; grows profusely .' around Paris. It is a very pretty flowering plant ; 

 the flowers are produced in an aggregate head of several in each, the stem 

 growing about a foot high. The flowers are of a deep pink colour, rather 

 higher at the centre. It will make a fine show if grown in large patches, or 

 as a bed. The plant blooms from June to October. It is cultivated in the 

 gardens of Sir S.\ mv el Scott, Sundridge Park, Kent, and in most of the 

 public nurseries. Decandria Digynia. Caryophillea?. (Brit. Fl. Gard.) 



7. Draccena terminalh, The Sandwich Island Tee-Plant. Synonym. As- 

 paragus terminalis. This plant is common in the Islands of the South Seas. 

 It requires a stove, temperature in this country. The plant resembles a Palm 

 in its appearance. It grows twelve feet high. The flowers are of a pinkish 

 white colour, produced very numerously in a large branching pauicled spike ; 

 thev are small, being about the size of the blossom of a Plum tree. — The 

 natives of the Sandwich Islands bake the roots of this plant in ovens under- 

 ground. The root is very pleasant and sweet to the taste. It is eaten ex- 

 tensively as an article of food. An intoxicating liquor is also extracted from 

 the roots, either by immersing them in water, till it ferments, or by distil- 

 ling them. If the roots be boiled, a thick syrup may be obtained, which is 



him to pieces. It appears that he was warned of the traps for wild cattle, and they were 

 even pointed out to him ; but it is presumed that he afterwards went to examine them 

 more closely, and, in this investigation, fell In. His bundle was found above 20 yards 

 behind. When first discovered, he was almost buried in the earth, under the feet of the 

 infuriated animal. No man, we believe, has ever introduced into Britain so many beautiful 

 hardy plants as Mr. Douglas; and the floricultural world has sustained (he greatest loss 

 by bis death. 



