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riety. V. odoratissimum has smooth evergreen, oblong, 

 elliptic, distantly toothed, leaves, and frequently a stripe 

 in them, is sweet-scented, and a free flowerer. V. hir- 

 sutum has flowers similar to the above ; foliage ovate, 

 with rough brown hairs on both sides, and very charac- 

 teristic. F". strictum variagdlum is a very fine variety, 

 and upright growing. These plants are all very desir- 

 able, blooming early in spring, and continuing for seve- 

 ral months ; all easily cultivated. 



Viminaria denuddta, the only species. This plant is re- 

 markable for its twiggy appearance, but it has no foliage, 

 except when growing from seed. It has at the extremity 

 of the twigs or shoots, an ovate, lanceolate, leaf, disap- 

 pearing when the plant grows old; the flowers are small, 

 yellow, coming out of the young shoots, to the astonish- 

 ment of the beholder. It grows freely. 



Virgilia capensis is a beautiful cape shrub, with a 

 compound leaf of twenty-five leaflets, ovate, lanceolate, 

 edges hairy; flowers in spikes at the axils; colour blue 

 and legumiriose. The pots require to be well drained, 

 and the plants protected from the sun. 



Volkamena japonica. There is a plant known in our 

 collections under that name, which is Clerodendron frd- 

 grans multiplex. It keeps in a .good 'Green-house, and 

 flowers well, frequently blooming during winter, and if 

 planted in the garden during summer, will flower su- 

 perbly. The flowers have a delicious fragrance ; but 

 if the foliage is rubbed with the hand, the smell is not 

 SQ pleasant. The leaves are large, round, ovate, and 

 tomentose; flowers corymbose, compact, and terminale. 

 There are several fine plants in Clerodendron belonging 



