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176, Jasmi^num nudiflorum Lindl. Naked-flowered Jes- 



AMiNE. ( Jasminae. ) China. 



A half hardy or hnrdy shrub ; growing three feet high; with yellow flowers; appearing in 

 spring ; grown in any good soil ; increased by cuttings and layers. Bot. Ma^., ISJL', pi. 4649. 



This has hitherto been kept as a greenhouse plant in our 

 collection ; but from its habit of growth, and from the fact 

 that it has proved perfectly hardy in England, we suspect it 

 will be found as hardy as the Weigelia, which was found by 

 Mr. Fortune in the same locality, (North of China.) It is a 

 beautiful thing. " It is deciduous ; the leaves falling off, in 

 its native country, early in autumn, and leaving a number of 

 prominent buds, which expand in early spring, often when 

 the snow is on the ground, and look like little primroses." 

 It will be a pretty companion to the Forsythia, Weigelia and 

 Spiras^a prunifolia pleno. [Bot. Mag., May.) 



177. Nymph^^a giga^ntea Hook. Gigantic Water Lily. 



(NymphacecB.) Australia. 



An aqualic ; with purplish blue flowers ; appearing in summer; increased by seeds. Bot. Mag. 

 1852, pi. 4647. 



This is a new water lily, of nearly the gigantic dimensions 

 of the Victoria regia, being a foot in diameter, " and if not of 

 a purplish blue color, yet blue — the blue, as it would appear 

 in Nymphse^a caerulea. Seeds of it were sent to England, 

 under the name of Victoria Fitzroyawa, having been gathered 

 in Northern Australia, but it has not yet flowered out of its 

 native locality, the drawings now before us having been 

 made from the botanical specimens sent to Dr. Hooker by 

 Mr. Bidwell, the collector, which, he says, " are so beauti- 

 fully dried by our valued friend and correspondent, that we 

 think we cannot err on that point. If the seeds should fail 

 to vegetate, or prove to be those of another kind, our Nym- 

 phas^a gigantea will ere long find its way into our tropical 

 tanks, and adorn them with a water lily, little inferior to the 

 royal Victoria in the size and beauty of the flowers, and with 

 leaves equally remarkable in size for a true Nymphas^a, being 

 eighteen inches to two feet across." {Bot. Mag., May.) 



