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north of China, in the district of Hwuy-Chow. The shrub 

 was about eight feet high, much branched, and far surpassing 

 in beauty all the known species of Mahonia." It is similar 

 in general character to the var. B. planifolia below described. 

 Its flowers, however, are much larger, and much less numer- 

 ous on the racemes. 



If this proves as hardy in our climate as the Mahom'a 

 aequifolium, it will be a rich acquisition. — {Bot. Mag., June.) 



287. Ca'nna Warszewiczii Dietr. Warszewicz's Canna. 



(Cannaceas.) Central America. 



a stove plant; growing three feet hisli; with scarlet flowers; appearing in summer; increased 

 by seeds and offsets; grown in good rich soil. Bot. Mag., 1855, pi. 4854. 



One of the finest of the Cannas, introduced into German 

 gardens in 1849, by M. Von Warszewicz. from Costa Rica. 

 The stem, and more especially the peduncles, ovaries, calyx 

 and bracts are of a fine blood red color, and the flowers of a 

 brilliant scarlet. It attains the height of three to four feet. 

 This species is as easily cultivated as the common Indian 

 shot, and in the German gardens it is planted out in the 

 same way we set out dahlias, salvias, &cc. The roots are 

 perennial, and easily wintered in any greenhouse. It is a 

 very brilliant species, and well deserves speedy introduction. — 

 {Bot. Mag., June.) 



288. Begonia urophylla Hook. Caudate-leaved Bego- 



nia. (Begoniaceae.) 



a stove plant; gijowing one to two feet high; with white (lowers; appearing in March; in- 

 creased by division of the root; grown in light heath soil and leaf mould. Bot. Mag., 1855, pi. 4855. 



" Certainly among the finest and handsomest of the genus. 

 The leaves are ample, and the flowers large and very numer- 

 ous, in panicles, which are compoundly divided in a de- or 

 tri-chotomous manner." The plant is stemless, and the leaves 

 spring directly from the root in the same way as in B. mani- 

 cata ; they are very large, a span or more long, broadly caudate, 

 green, paler beneath, the margin inciso-dentate, ending in a 

 long tail-like point. The flowers in two kinds, — the male 

 large, and the female smaller. It is a fine species. — [Bot. 

 Mag., June.) 



