598 FInriculliiral and Bofanical Notices, 



which it produces in abiiiulance. These plautctl in a compost of lime 

 rubbish ami a little vegetable soil, kept just damp, will speedily emit roots, 

 and establish themselves, and then nothing but frost or overwatcring will 

 destroy them." {Hot. lirg., Sept.) 



XLVII. Onagrar'uc § Fiic/isivx, Fuchs/« globosa Hori,, and Fuchsia 

 bacillaris Lindlci/. In p. 505. we have attempteil to describe the adniirable- 

 ness of a plant of Fuchsw globosa Ilort.y as grown by Mr. Dennis, nur- 

 seryman, Chelsea, but have grossly erred in stating it to be identical with 

 Fiichsw bacillaris of lAndlcij in the Botanical Rcgidcr, t. 1480. The two 

 kinds arc as distinct as any two kinds of one genus need to be. On com- 

 paring the two, although the specimens we inspected were unequal in size 

 and age, the following differences were perceptible : — F. bacillaris has 

 ascentliiig branches; elliptical leaves, which are acuminately tapered to 

 both ends, and perfectly smooth in every part ; its flowers resemble those 

 of F. /hymifulia, and somewhat those of F. microphylla ; and they have 

 not their stamens projected beyond the free tubular part of the calyx. 

 The branches of F. giobosa are decurved, from which depend, on slender 

 pedicels 1 in. in length, very numerous flowers ; thus forming pleasing 

 crimson wreaths. The leaves are somewhat heart-shaped at the base, 

 acuminate, serrate, and fringed with short, and probably deciiluous, pubes- 

 cence. The flower, before expansion (see p. 505.), is globose; but, when 

 expanded, much resembles that of F. cunica, and has its stamens projected 

 beyond the extent of both the crimson sepals and purple petals. Until 

 some botanist publishes a more perfect history of it, we shall here pro- 

 visionally register it. F. bacillaris is noticed in p. 2-25., and registered in 

 the AiUUtlonal Supplement , p. 589. 



1188. FU'CHS/^. \ 2. (Macrosteninnea;'! Stamens projectiiiR beyond the sepals and petals. 1 

 10075a globbsa y/or/. globose-^wrf. «Il_J or 5 jn.s C.P Kng. hybrid? 1830. C p.l 



F. giobosa is said to have been originated by some gentleman's gardener, 



from seeds cross-impregnateil between F. conica and F. microphylla. 



1185 CLA'UK/.^ 10017 pulchi-lla 



2 fibre aibo .S'lW. white-flowered O or IJ ju W N.Amer. ISCfi. .S co Sw.fl.gar.2. s. 157. 



" The flowers of Clarkw pulchclla are found of various shades of purple 

 in the cultivated plant ; but the w bite variety represented in our plate is 

 more particularly deserving of notice." {British Flower-Garden, Sept.) 



LX. P/o/caceac. 



.■Jlfi. GREVI'LLE,:!. 

 +28900rt robdsta t'M;i. robust or s/'MonAI | |or80... O MoretonB. 1830. C l.p Bot.mag.3184 



This species is figured from native specimens ; the only plant in Britain, 

 in the Kevv Gardens, not having yet flowered in this country. " This 

 noble species of (irevillew," Mr. Cunningham, its introducer, remarks, " in 

 the thick moist woods on the banks of the Brisbane River, vies in size 

 and .stature with the Flindensw, Oxleyr/, and other large forest trees; 

 but by none is it surpassed in height in its native woods, except by the 

 Arauedria of tiiose regions, whose level-topped branching head is seen 

 rising far above all the rest. Some aged triniks of (Jrevfllcrt robwsta 1 

 have found to measure nine feet in circumference ; so that it is probably 

 the largest tree of the order [Protec/fVY/] that has yet been discovered, 

 surpassing both the Knight/Vz of New Zealand, and the Orites [oreitcH, an 

 inhabitant of mountains] excelsa Br. of Port Maccjuarrie. From its deeply 

 dissected foliage, and the silkiness of the under side, it has obtained the 

 name of " Silk oak " among the pine-cutters of Moreton Bay : but its 

 timlier, which is of a toughish fibre, has not been api)ropriated to any use." 

 {Bat. Mag., Seiitember.j 



We have presented the tabular details of this species above, because in 

 our published Additional Supplement , p. 5f>0., by a shifting of the ty|)e, the 

 details of this species, and of Caley/', have been mutually transposed; the 

 tabular description of Greviilear Caley? is therefore this : — 



