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more compact, the purple spots on the corolla larger, darker, and 

 more numerous, the white less clear, and the leaves covered on 

 the under side with a clear, bright, cinnamon colored fur." The 

 white variety referred to has never been noticed in our Maga- 

 zine, but it may be described as very similar to its parent, the 

 R. arboreum, except in the color of the blossoms, and a less 

 compact cluster. It is a valuable addition to this gorgeous fam- 

 ily, and though yet quite rare, wnll undoubtedly soon become 

 generally cultivated. It was raised from seeds received from 

 Dr. Wallich, through the directors of the East India Company, 

 in 1822; but none of the plants then raised appear to have flow- 

 ered before the one from which the specimen was cut from 

 which the present drawing was taken. This opened in the nur- 

 sery of the Messrs. Rollisons of Tooting, in April last. 



It has been supposed that this was the R. campanulatum, 

 which Dr. Wallich intended by the name of it. cinnamomeum, 

 and that the former name was given by Mr. Herbert, and adopt- 

 ed by Mr. Don, to the same plant as the latter. But Dr. Wal- 

 lich does not seem to be of this opinion, as the subject was no- 

 ticed in the number 760 of his Indian Herbarium^ while the R. 

 campanulatum is included in the same collection as number 756. 

 (Bot. Reg., August.) 



The varieties of this admired tribe of plants have been greatly 

 increased within a few years by the production of numerous 

 seedlings, both with the English and Continental amateur and 

 nursery gardeners. Hybrids have been obtained between the 

 R. arboreum and our native species, the R. catawbiense, of great 

 elegance: the great desideratum yet, is, to procure hardy plants 

 possessing the splendor of the Indian species and varieties ; this 

 wnll, we have no doubt, be ultimately done: Mr. Brown, gar- 

 dener to Lord Aylesbury, has raised a beautiful variety between 

 the arboreum and maximum, which is quite hardy in England. 

 A variety or species called R multimaculatum, has flowered, 

 the past spring, in the nursery of the Blessrs. Young of Epsom, 

 which they received from the Continent; it has a white ground, 

 with brown spots, and is said to be fine. M. Soularge Bodin of 

 Fromont, near Paris, has a large catalogue of varieties raised in 

 his extensive nursery, and many of which have been imported 

 into our gardens. 



We remarked, in our notice of the nursery of Thomas Lan- 

 dreth, (p. 212.) that our cultivators do not understand the man- 

 agement of the R. arboreum, as it is rare to see specimens in a 

 vigorous and healthy state. We are now more assured that we 

 were right in our supposition, as will be seen from the following 

 remarks, which we quote from Paxton's Magazine of Botany (or 

 July, where he states that a plant was then in bloom at Chatsworth, 

 with upwards of two hundred! bunches upon it. Mr. Paxton 



