of New Plants. 449 



This was " one of the earUest plants found by Mr. Fortune on 

 his arrival at Chusan." Seeds were sent home by mail, and 

 from them plants were raised which flowered in the Garden 

 of the Society where the drawing was made. It is a small 

 shrub, with ovate, acuminate, leaves, and terminal spikes of 

 rich purple or violet colored flowers, somewhat resembling 

 in habit of growth and flowering, a lilac. It grows easily, but 

 does not seem to bloom freely, running, as it is termed, to 

 wood. We introduced the plant in the fall of 1844, and have 

 not ourselves succeeded in flowering it well : but a plant ex- 

 hibited by Mr. Needham, of Brighton, was full of bloom, and 

 he has promised us an account of his mode of treatment. It 

 requires a rather sandy soil, not too rich. (^Bot. Reg. Jan.) 



FRANCI'S£^ 



acuminata Pax. Acuniinate leaved Francisea. An evergreen stove shrub ; growing two feet 

 hi?h -, with bluish violet colored flowers ; appearing in August ; a native of Rio Janeiro ; increased 

 by cutiings ; cultivated in loam, peat and leaf mould. Pax. Mag. Bot. 1846, p. 27. 



A beautiful stove plant, with "bunches of violet blue flow- 

 ers," rather freely produced on plants of very small dimen- 

 sions, and well adapted for a small collection of plants. 

 It is grown in two thirds fibrous loam with peat and leaf 

 mould, and cuttings root freely in bottom heat. {Pax. Mag. 

 Bot. March.) 



CH.ENO'STOMA 



polyinthum Pax. Many-flowered Chaenostoma. An herbaceous plant ; grovring about a foot 

 high; with bluish lilac flowers; appearing in summer ; a native of South Africa; increased by seeds 

 or cuttings ; cultivated in any good soil. Pax. Mag. Bot. p. 31. 



A dwarf and bushy plant, producing a great profusion of 

 large loose racemes of small bluish lilac flowers. "Treated 

 as an aiuiual, it may be had in flower a greater part of the 

 year," and may be "either employed to decorate the border 

 in the open air, or ornament the greenhouse." It is stated to 

 be highly useful to cultivators for producing flowers for the 

 market, and, by making successive sowings of the seed, may 

 be had in bloom all the year. It also grows freely from cut- 

 tings. {Pax. Mag. Bot. March.) 



PTEROSTI'GMA 



graiidi.ldruni licnlk. Large-flowered Wiug Point. A half hardy herbaceous plant; growing eigh- 

 teen inches high ; with blue flowers ; appearing iu spring ; a native of China ; increased by divis- 

 ion of Uie root ; ciUtivatcd in any good soil. Bot. Reg. ISJl. pi. 16. 



Found by Mr. Fortune, who sent it home as a " blue-flowered 

 herbaceous plant." It has flowered in the Society's Garden, 

 and is described as having flowers " as large as those of a 

 digitalis, and of the deep color of Gloxinia violacea" growing 



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