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resemblance to the last; bears in the Cold season terminal 

 clusters of white flowers, perfectly inodorous, very small, and not 

 very interesting. 



Sollya. 



S. heterophylla. A slender climbing plant ; bears small cymes 

 of five-lobed flowers, not large, but of a beautiful azure blue. 

 Dr. Voigt mentions it as growing here and blossoming in 

 December. I have never met with it, nor heard of its being 

 here now. 



EPACBIDACE^E. 

 Epacris. 



A genus of plants much cultivated in England for their very 

 beautiful flowers, in general character somewhat resembling 

 Heaths. Altogether unknown, I believe, in India. 



ERICACEAE. 

 Erica. 

 HEATH. 



A most extensive genus of plants, nearly all natives of the 

 Cape of Good Hope, and, except in the solitary instances recorded 

 below, altogether unknown in this country. 



E. speciosa. Of this Mr. M'Murray, gardener of the Agri- 

 Horticultural Society, exhibited in February 1854, a specimen, 

 with the following remarks : 



" The accompanying plant of Cape Heath in flower is the produce 

 of one kind of the seed sown in October 1852, from which it will 

 be seen that the plant has made a good growth since that time, and 

 is probably the first plant of the sort which has flowered in Bengal. 

 In addition to this variety of Heath, there are in the garden ten 

 other kinds raised from the same batch of seed, equally as healthy, 

 but not so large."* 



How long these plants survived I am not aware. They were 

 not in existence two years afterwards. 



* ' Journal of Agri-Hort. Soc.,' vol. ix. p. 10. 



