n458 FloriaiUural and Botanical Notices, 



appcndirul'ita Cr:i'. appcniliclcil jg j^J or 3 my.jn Ilo.C Chiloc 1831. S p.l Sw.fl.par.2. «.151 



A very ornamental, and tlierefore very desirable, novelty. It was 

 raised at Low's Nursery, Clapton, from seeds collected by Mr. Anderson, 

 near the port of San Carlos de Cliiloe. Mr. Amlerson accompanied 

 Captain King, in the capacity of botanist, in his recent voyage of survey 

 on the coasts of South America. Francow appendiculata appears to 

 succeeil well in England, in the open border of a garden, where its tall 

 clusters of rosy blossoms, marked with deep crimson, render it a conspi- 

 cuous object. Two other species, F. .sonchifolia IV., also \vith rosy 

 blossoms, and F. ramosa 1). Dun, which has white flowers, have been 

 recently introduced from seeds collected by Mr. Hugh Cuming, in Chile. 

 ( J/r. 1). Don, in SwceCs Flowcr-Gardcn, July.) A plant of Franco« 

 appendiculata, in full flower, was exhibited at the Linnacan Society's 

 Meeting on June 19., from Low's Nursery, Clapton; and a description of 

 it, by Mr. D. Don, was read. 



CLVL VolygmecE. Coccoloba (/co/ckos seed, and tobos, a lobe ; from the 

 lob'ed seed, not fruit as stated in Horl. Brit.) pubescens L. is figured in 

 the Bot. Mag. for July, t. 3166. This is a plant of much interest in 

 British stoves, on account of the very large size of its cordately based 

 orbicular leaves, which sometimes attain to an expansion of two feet in 

 diameter. I once saw a leaf almost of tiiis size produced on the plant in 

 the stove of the Cambridge Botanic (iarden. This plant produced a 

 single raceme of flowers, for the first time (and it had never been pre- 

 viously known to flower in Britain, although introduced in 1690), in the 

 beginning of February, 1832 : but, owing to the bad condition of the hot- 

 house, which seldom allow s of its retaining a temperature of more than a 

 few degrees al)ove 60°, none of the flowers appear to have expanded 

 properly. Of them, however. Professor Henslow has availeil himself as 

 fully as he could, and contributed to the Bot. j\I(ig. the result of his 

 researches : these arc of botanical rather than of gardening interest. 

 According to Jacquin, the Coccoloba pubescens becomes an inelegant 

 upright tree, between 60 ft. and 80 ft. high. It is a native of the West 

 Indies, and very common in the mountain forests of Martinique. The 

 wood is hard, iieavy, deep red, and almost incorruptible. When used for 

 posts, the part in the ground becomes as hard as stone. The fruit is said 

 to be eatable. (^Bot. Mag., July.) 



CLXX. ^riccce ^ vcrce. 



4173. /rnrCA. l I. Xubiflbra?. 



dichr.'pmata //f. two-colourcd Hi | or 3 aut.w Y.Pk C.G.H. 1800. C s.p Bot. cab. 1813 



The flowers are beautiful, tiie tubular corols being pink at their base 



for about one third of their lengtii, and the remainder yellow. The shrub 



is usually two feet higii before it begins to flower. {Bot. Cab., June.) 



Tubiflbrtp. 

 vcrcci'inda Z7.C. r\xMy.fliud Hi | or 3 Bu.aut Ro C.G.H. 1820. C ».p Bot cab. 1857 



This, according to the figure, is quite an ornamental kind : its tubular 

 red corols seem luimerously produced, and have a |)endulous direction. 

 " It grows vigorously, and attains a cousiilerable si/e." (7/o/. CV/A., July.) 



E/v'tva.' (J \{lto(l(iracc(r. 



In Sweet's British Flowrr-dardcn for June, t. 148., the white-flowered 

 tree rhododendron is figured from tlie Chelsea Botanic (iarden. This has 

 hitherto iieen named y^hododcndron arbureum 2 tilbum ; l)Ut Mr. D. Don 

 concurs with Mr. Sweet in considering it a perfectly di.stinct species, to 

 which Mr. Sweet has applied the .specific name of lillnun ; a name which 

 cannot Ik- retained, because previously occupied l)y the B. album of Pursh, 

 the second species in both the Iloiiii.s Brilainiirus of Sweet and that of 

 Luudon. This white tree rhododendron, be the specific name hereafter 

 agreed upon for it what it may, " diflers from B. arboreum by its rigid 



