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to cultivate, and will grow in any common garden soil, but prefers a mixture 

 of peat, loam, and sand; is perfectly hardy; if allowed to remain, will pro- 

 pagate itself by offsets as well as by seeds. It blooms in June and July, 

 having about twenty flowers in an umbel. Triteleia, from treis, three; and 

 tdeios, complete, — in allusion to the perfectly ternary arrangement of its 

 parts. 



3. Garrya elliplica, Elliptic-leaved. Discia, Tetraudria. Garryacere. A 

 hardy evergreen shrub, native of Northern California, where it was disco- 

 vered by Mr. Douglas. It was introduced in 1828, and a plant flow- 

 ered for the first time in October last, in the Garden of the London Horti- 

 cultural Society. In appearance it is very similar to a Viburnum, and, like 

 that genus, is readily increased by layers. It prefers a loamy soil. This 

 plant appears to represent a natural order altogether distinct from any pre- 

 viously known. The flowers are in long pendulous ameutums, of a pale 

 green colour. Altogether it is a very prettry shrub. Garrya, named by 

 Mr. Douglas in compliment to Nicholas Garrv, Esq., Secretary of the 

 Hudson's Bay Company. 



4. Geodontm fuscatum, Painted flowered. Gynandria, Monandria. Or- 

 chidese. A single plant of this new species of Geodorum sent to the London 

 Horticultural Society from Ceylon by Mr. Watson, in 1832, flowered in the 

 Chiswick Garden last July. It thrives in a hot damp stove, but requires to 

 be rested after its leaves have withered. The flowers are produced in a 

 pendulous tuft of ten or more together, compact ; they are of a rose-colour 

 outside, striped with white, about half an inch across; the inside of the 

 flower is white, striped with red. Geodorum, from ye, the earth; and doron, 

 a gift 



5. Sphcero&tema propinquum, Small-flowered. Direcia, Polyandria. Ano- 

 naces. Synonym, Kadsura propinqua. A hothouse climber, found by Dr. 

 Wallich, in Nepal, on Mount Sheopore, and on the hills about Sankoo. 

 It flowered last July in the Horticultural Society's Garden at Chiswick. 

 The flowers are yellow and brown, about an inch across, produced singly at 

 each leaf, or joint of the shoots; they are succeeded by long pendulous 

 shoots of scarlet berries. Sphterostema, so named from sphaira, a globe ; 

 and sterna, a stamen, — in allusion to the structure of the male flowers. 



6. Lupinus densijlorus, Dense-flowered. Diadelphia, Decandria. Legu- 

 iuinosa>. Raised in the Garden of the Horticultural Society from seeds 

 sent from California by Mr. Douglas. The flowers, which grow in distinct 

 whorls, are white, delicately stained with pink; they are also a little speckled 

 at the base of the vexillum. The stem does not grow above six or seven 

 inches high. It is a hardy annual, but rare, hitherto producing few seeds. 

 Lupinus, from lupus, a wolf, — in allusion to the exhausting habit of the 

 plant. 



7. Yucca superba, Superb Adam's Needle. Hexandria, Monogynia. Li 

 liacere. Synonym, Yucca gloriosa. It has bloomed with the Hon. and Rev. 

 William Herbert, who says that he bought the plant twenty years ago of 

 Mr. Malcolm, of Kensington Nursery, and that it is unquestionably the 

 most magnificent plant in the flower garden. The flower stem rises eight 

 or nine feet high; and the profusion of blossom is so great, that as the late- 

 ral shoots are rather sub-erect than diverging, a pin cannot be passed between 

 the flowers in the centre of the column. The deep crimson of the stalks 

 and stem, and the purple stripe on the outer petals of the flower, remind 

 one of Crinum amabile. It is a very hardy species, and flowers frequently. 

 Yucca, from its name in use in St. Domingo. 



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1. Rosa rapa, Double Burnet-leaved Rose. Icosandria, Polyginia. R<> 

 O&cete. Introduced from America iu 1726. It is commonly cultivated as a 



