60 Floricultural arid Botanical Notices 



the upper parts of the branches, and flower chiefly in the 

 evening." 



It has flowered, we heheve, for the first time in England, 

 in the collection of Col. Baker, of Salisbury, who has had 

 the plant thirteen years. Its treatment has been as follows: 

 The first plant, when about eight feet high, was headed 

 down, and the top of it, about a foot long, was put in as a 

 cutting. It rooted and grew freely. The third year, the 

 top was taken off" and treated like the parent. The plant 

 which has now flowered, is four years old ; it was topped 

 a year ago last March, and was kept without a drop of wa- 

 ter from November till March. It was then started into 

 growth. In May, it had made shoots four feet long, when it 

 was turned out of the pot, the soil shook away, and the 

 roots cut back. It was then potted in a twelve-inch pot, in 

 a mixture of charcoal, loam, sand and peat, and. on the 

 4th of June, threw up a fine spike of flowers. It is highly 

 fragrant. Readily increased by cuttings. {Paa;. Mag. 

 Bot., Dec.) 



Leguminbsce. 



BOSSI^>.^j 



paucifolia Benth. Few-leaved Bossifca. A green-house plant ; growing 2 feet high ; with 

 crimson and yellow flowers ; appearing in July ; a native of New Holland ; increased by 

 cuttings; grown in peat, loam and sand. Bot. Reg. t. 63. 1843. 



Syn. B. virgita. Hooker in Bot. Mag. t. 3986. 1842. 



When well managed, a pretty little green-house shrub, 

 with small, oblong, linear foliage, " gaily sprinkled with 

 yellow and crimson blossoms." Like many New Holland 

 shrubs, it possesses but little beauty unless carefully grown ; 

 it should not be allowed to grow straggling, but should be 

 kept dwarf, when it forms a compact bush. Its cultiva- 

 tion is simple. It should be potted in rough peat, mixed 

 with little loam and sand; and the stem should be little 

 elevated to prevent damp. It requires a good supply of 

 water in summer. Readily increased by cuttings. {Bot. 

 Reg., Dec.) 



OXYLOBIUM 



obovitum Part. Obovateleaved Oxylobium. A green-house plant; growing a foot high ; 

 with yellow and brown flowers ; appearing in April; a native of New Holland; increased 

 by cuttings ; grown in peat, loam and sand. Pax. Mag. Bot. Vol. X. p. 243. 



Syn. O. oune^tum. 



A very showy species, with leaves like the O. retusum, 

 that is, obovate, with the broadest part at what is generally 

 the pointed end. They appear in whorls of three, and 



