supplementary to Enc. of Plants and Hort. Brit. 4^55 



The reader will find the few abbreviations used in the following extracts 

 explained in p. 12. 



III. ^xinunciddcecB. § Helleborece. 



Delphinium speciosum is figured in the Bot. Reg. for June, t. 1503. 

 It is " a hardy and handsome perennial, native to high elevations of the 

 Caucasus." It produces its large deep blue blossoms, from June to 

 September, and seems a very desirable species for decorating the hardy 

 flower-garden. 



XXII. Ternstromikcese. 



2037. THE^A 18160 vfridis 



Slatifblia^.C. broad-leaved « i_J or 4 f.n W China 1825? C p.l Bot. cab. 1828 



It is surprising, that in plants so much cultivated as the teas are in 

 China, no more varieties have yet been noticed. The above one was 

 introduced, some years ago, by the late Mr. Bassington. It is principally 

 distinguished by its leaf being so much broader than the ordinary kind j 

 the flowers differ but slightly. {Bot. Cab., July.) 



2038. CAME'LLZ^ 18166 jap6nlca 



Reevesjnna Lindl. Reeves's it i_| spl 10 sp C. Wsh China 1829 ? I l.p Bot. reg. 1501 



" This is certainly one of the most striking camellias hitherto imported , 

 its richness of colour far surpassing any that we have yet seen." Camelh'o 

 japonica Reevesirma is published from the nursery of Mr. Tate, who 

 imported the plant from China, and who " states that the flowers are very 

 variable." The foliage has a remarkably curled appearance. This variety 

 is named in compliment to Mi*. Reeves, ** to whom this country is under 

 the greatest obligations for the zeal and liberality with which he devoted 

 himself, during a long residence in China, to the collection and transmis- 

 sion to England of all [he could procure] that is rare, beautiful, or useful, 

 in the flora of the celestial empire." (Bot. Reg., June.) 

 XLV. Grossuldceee . 

 719. nrBEs. 



5928(1 specibsum Pft. showy 31^ or 5 my.jn. C California 1829. C co Sw.fl.gar.2s.l49 



stamrneum Striith in Rees's Cyclop, and Dec. Prod. 3. 477., and also specibsum Dec. Prod. 3. 478. 



An especially showy species, having the entire habits of the gooseberry, 

 yet vying in the form and brilliancy of its flowers with the elegant Fuchsia. 

 A single plant was raised by A. B. Lambert, Esq., in 1829. The plant 

 was, .shortly after having been raised, planted in the open ground, where it 

 is found to thrive luxuriantly, it being now (June, 1832) a large bush, five 

 feet in height. It blossomed, for the first time, in the beginning of May, 

 1832, and continued in flower for more than six weeks. Its profusion of 

 large, crimson, glittering blossoms, contrasted with its bright green glossy 

 leaves, renders it one of the most beautiful objects imaginable." (Mr. 

 David Don, in Sweefs Floiver Garden, July.) 



Specimens of this fuchsia-flowered gooseberry were exhibited at a Meet- 

 ing of the Linnaean Society, held on June 19., from Mr. Lambert's garden 

 at Boyton House, Wilts ; and a description of the plant, by Mr. D. Don, 

 was read. Mr. Don presents the following concise and expressive specific 

 character of R. speciosum : — Branches bristly ; prickles three together ; 

 leaves smooth ; calyxes four-cleft and tubular j stamens and pointal pro- 

 jecting far beyond the flower ; berries hispid. 



LVI. Mi/rtdcecE. § JEulej^tospennece. 



Bae'ckia saxicola Cun., given in the Supplement to the Hortus Britdnnicus, 

 p. 476., is figured in the Bot. Mag. for June, t. 3160., where it is stated, from 

 Mr. Cunningham, that this neat little white-flowered shrub is prostrate on 

 the bare granite rocks which it inhabits on the south-west coast of 

 Australia ; but that, under cultivation, at Kew, with more nutritive food, 

 it has become a perfectly erect shrub. At Kew it flowers in March. 

 {Bot. Mag., June.) 



'M.yrtdcecB. $ Lecythidece. Couroupita (the name of the plant in Guiana) 

 guianensis, the Guiana Couroupita, or cannon-ball tree, is elaborately 



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