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lished work on the Himalayan plants, by J. F. Cathcart, Esq., 

 were omitted in our last number for want of room : — 



Vacciniiim salignum and serpens. — " The genus Vaccin- 

 ium, which is mostly represented in northern climates by 

 deciduous-leaved shrubs with small flowers, assumes a very 

 difierent habit and appearance in the tropical mountains of 

 both the old and new world. In the lower Eastern Hima- 

 laya, Malay Peninsula, Java, and other of the Malayan islands, 

 especially, there is an extensive section — to which the two 

 species here figured belong — which could hardly be recog- 

 nized as having much affinity with the whortleberry of our 

 moors. They are all epiphytical shrubs, having the lower 

 part of the stem often sivelling out into a prostrate trunk, as 

 thick as the human arm or leg, and sending out branching 

 fibrous roots that attach it to the limb of the tree upon which 

 it grows. These trunks are soft and spongy inte?mally, and 

 are reservoirs of moisture and nutriment ; they send out a few 

 slender, generally pendulous branches, which bear often gor- 

 geous flowers." The two plants which give rise to the above 

 remark are most beautiful shrubs with large crimson flowers, 

 and would be brilliant ornaments of a greenhouse should they 

 prove to be cultivable. 



Biiddleia Colvilei. — '-This is very unlike any other Asiatic 

 species of Buddleia in its size and form of flower, color, and 

 the locality it inhabits, its congeners being almost without 

 exception tropical or subtropical plants ; in several respects it 

 more closely resembles some of the species of the Andes, but 

 it lias no rival anywhere for beauty and graceful habit. It 

 is abundant towards the summit of Tonglo, from 9000 feet 

 to the top 10,000 feet, and is also frequent in the Lachen 

 and Lachoong valleys at similar elevations, even ascending to 

 12,000 feet. This will probably prove perfectly hardy, as I 

 have found it in very exposed places as well as in woods ; 

 and from the abundance of its flowers, and its lasting some 

 weeks in bloom, it would be a most desirable addition to our 

 gardens." Let us add that the flowers are as fine as those ot 

 Escallonia macrantha, and as deep a red, while they grow in 

 panicles as large as that of a common lilac. 



