416 Floricultural and Botanical Notices. 



LobeHkcese. 



SIPHOCA'MPYLUS 



lantanifolius Lantana-leaved Siphocampylus. {De Cand. Prod.) A good looking stove 

 plant, flowering in the early spring months, and readily increased by cuttings. 



A rather weak but erect shrub, with a peculiar inflores- 

 cence constituted of a many-flowered corymbose raceme, 

 and, according to the figure, bearing crimson blossoms. 

 {Curtis' s Bot. Mag., New Series, No. 4105.) 



A^c/epiadese. 



./9SCLE»PI.4S 



vestita Hooker. Hairy-stemmed Asclepias. An herbaceous perennial, with yellow-green- 

 ish flowers. 



Reared from seeds received ("we believe") from the 

 Southern States of North America, and flowered by Mr. 

 Veitch, in the greenhouse, in October, 1843. A new and 

 well marked species, distinguished by '-the thick and very 

 hairy stems and peduncles, by the peculiar form of the 

 cuculli or baflets of the stamenal crown, and by the ab- 

 sence of the hornlike processes so common withni the cu- 

 cuUus in other species of the genus." {lb. New Series, 

 No. 4106. 



BythneriacecB. 



THOMA'S/.^ (named after Thomas, father and two sons, of Bex ; Swiss Botanists. 



stipulicea Lindl. A small bushy shrub, raised from New Holland seeds j sent by Mr. 

 Drummond to the Kew gardens. 



A fine species, with large purple flowers, and rather large 

 petiolated, cordate, rigid, sinuato-dentate leaves. {lb. New 

 Series, No. 4101.) 



Berbe?i6kcesd. 



BE'RBERIS 



umbellita IVall. Umbellate Berberry. A hardy (?) sub-evergreen shrub ; growing three 

 feet high ; with yellow flowers ; appearing in June; increased by seeds or layers ; grown in 

 comnion soil ; a native ol East India. Bot. Reg. t. 44, 1844. 



A very showy and pretty species of the berberry, with 

 obovate oblong foliage, and short, dense racemes of beauti- 

 ful bright yellow flowers. It is a native of the East Indies, 

 and has been raised from seeds received from the East In- 

 dia Company, under the name B. Wallichm^rt and flori- 

 bimda. In the garden of the London Horticultural Society 

 it has proved hardy, but probably in our climate, it would 

 require the protection of a cold frame. It is easily increased 

 by seeds or layers, and grows freely in any good garden 

 soil. {Bot. Reg., Aug.) 



