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296. Ake^bia quina^ta Decaisne. Five-leaved Akebia, 



(LardizabalacesB.) Japan. 



A hardy or half-hardy cliinbins evergreen shrub; growing ten feet high; with purple flowers, 

 appearing in summer; £rown in sandy loam and peat; increased l>y cuttings. Hot. Mag., 1855; p. 

 4864. 



Introduced by Mr. Fortune from China, where it forms a 

 slender twining evergreen shrub, with racemes of purple 

 flowers, which appear at the axils of the leaves along its 

 slender stems. If, like the Wistan'a and many other Chinese 

 plants, it should prove hardy, it will be a decided acquisition, 

 and rank in beauty with the hardy clematises. It was intro- 

 duced by Dr. Siebold. {Bot. Mag., Aug.} 



297. Drymo^nia villous a Hort. Shaggy Drymonia. (Ges- 



neraceae.) Surinam. 



A hot-house plant; growing a foot high; with white flowers; appearing in May and June; 

 grown in light peaty soil; increased by cuttings. Bot. Mag., 1855, pi. 48ti6. 



A pretty plant, with the appearance of an achimenes, bear- 

 ing white flowers from the axils of its densely villous or 

 woolly-covered leaves. It requires a moist stove in the Eng- 

 glish climate, but with us would flower abundantly all sum- 

 mer under common greenhouse treatment, like the gloxinia. 

 {Bot. Mag., Aug.) 



298. Stylophorum diphyllum Nutiall. Two-leaved Sty- 



LOPHORUM. (Papaveraceae.) United States. 



A hardy herbaceous plant; growing one foot high; with yellow flowers; appearing in summer; 

 increased by seeds; grown in light soil. Bot. Mag., 1855, pi. 4667. 



A native of the Western States, where it forms a small 

 plant, about a foot high, with bipinnatified leaves and yellow 

 poppy-like flowers. It was raised from seed sent to Kew 

 Garden by Dr. Gray, of Harvard University. It possesses but 

 little beauty, and is scarcely of more than botanical interest. 

 {Bot. Mag., Aug.) 



299. Thermo'psis barba^ta Royle. Shaggy Thermopsis. 



(Liguminosese.) Himalaya. 



Ahirdy or half-hardy perenniiil; growing eighteen inches high; with almost black flowers; ap- 

 pearing in June; grown in light peaty soil; increased from seed or division. Bot. Mag. 1855, pl.4S68. 



A singular, lupin-like plant, growing erect, with spikes of 

 very dark violet-colored flowers, and whorled, sessile, lanceo- 



