of New Plants. 79 



ducing double flowers : they are about as large as those of a dou- 

 ble anemone, but the petals are arranged with the irregularity 

 of the rose ; they are of a pale delicate pink, and remain ex- 

 panded some days." It was found by Mr. Fortune, in Shang- 

 hai, and was sent home as a double convolvulus. It is a fine 

 addition to our climbing plants, and as it grows readily in 

 any good soil, it would undoubtedly form a splendid object 

 turned out into the open border in summer, in the same way 

 as we have recommended for Ipomaea Learii. It flowers freely. 

 {^Bot. Reg. Aug.) 



5. Garde'nia flo'rida var. Fortunia^ja Mr. Fortune's Gar- 



denia, (Cinchonacese.) 



a green-house plant ; growing two feet high : with white flowers ; appearing in summer ; a 

 native of China ; increased by cuttings ; grown in leaf mould and peat. Bot. Reg. 1846 p. 43. 



One of the most magnificent things which has recently been 

 introduced, ranking "on a level with the double white camel- 

 ha, which it equals in the beauty of the flowers and leaves, 

 and infinitely excels it in its delicious odor." It is thus spoken 

 of in the Journal of the Hort. Soc. : — " The common single and 

 double varieties of this plant are known to any one. That 

 which is now noticed difiers merely in the extraordinary size 

 of the flowers, which are nearly four inches in diameter, and 

 in having fine broad leaves, sometimes as much as six inches 

 long. The flowers are pure white, changing to light bufi" as 

 they go ofi", and not imlike a very large double camellia. 

 Their calyx has the long broad lobes of the original species, 

 instead of the narrow lobes, at least twice as short as the tube 

 of the corolla of G. radicans, by which that species is techni- 

 cally known." Such a description should induce every culti- 

 vator to possess what has so long been wanted — a white camel- 

 lia with a delicious perfume. It comes from the North of 

 China, where it was found by Mr. Fortune, and although 

 nothing is said of its treatment, it is probably as hardy as the 

 camellia. It is a noble acquisition. {^Bot. Reg. Aug.) 



6. .^schyna'nthus Boschia^nus Pax. VandenBosch's Mschj- 



nanthus. (Gesnerdcets.) 



A stove plant ; growing two feet high ; with scarlet flowers; appearing in spring : a native of 

 Java : Increased by cuttings : grown in moss, peat and leaf mould. Pax Mag. Bot. xiii. p. 175. 



All the JiJschynanthuses are handsome plants, but the pres- 

 ent species is peculiarly so from its abundant blooming, pretty 



