416 Floricultural and Botanical Notices. 



216. Eucalyptus cocci'fer^ ^oo/v. Coccus bearing Gum- 



tree. (Myrtaceae.) Van Dieman's Land. 



A half hardy shrub or tree ; Etrowin? twenty feet hii;h ; with yellowish white flowers ; appear- 

 insT in spriii;.' ; increused by seeds and cuttings ; grown in liijht loamy rich soil. Hot. Mag., I&j3. 

 |i). 4637. 



A showy myrtaceous low tree, which stands the winter in 

 the south of England, but requires the greenhouse elsewhere. 

 In our climate it would grow out doors jfinely south of Wash- 

 ington, and would form a most ornamental tree. The foliage 

 is everywhere clothed with a glaucous bloom, and the flow- 

 ers appear in terminal branches. {Bat. Mag., March.) 



217. DlPLADE^NIA FLAVA Hook. YeLLOW-FLOWERED DiPLA- 



DENiA. (Apocyneae.) New Grenada. 



A climbing stove plant; with yellow flowers; appearing in May ; increased by cuttingE ; 

 grown ill loam, leaf mould and sand. Hot. Ma^., 1S53, pi. 4702. 



A very beautiful species of this fine family, which now em- 

 braces a great contrast of colors. It was introduced in 1845, 

 and flowered in the Royal Gardens. " The flowers are near- 

 ly equal in size, and the same in color as our yellow flowered 

 species of Allamanda." It is cultivated in the same way as 

 the lovely D. crassinoda. (Bat. Mag., March.) 



218. Sandersonia auranti^aca Hook. Golden-flowered 



Sandersonia. [LiliacecB.) South Africa. 



A greenhouse bulb ; growing about eighteen inches high ; with orange colored flowers ; appear- 

 ing in autumn; increased by offsets ; grown in li^ht rich soil. Bol. Mag., 1853, pi. 471B. 



A singular and very handsome plant, found at Natal, South 

 Africa, by John Sanderson, Esq., in 18.51, who sent drawings 

 and a description of the flower to Dr. Hooker. It has not 

 yet flowered in England. It has sessile, lanceolate leaves, 

 striated, with parallel veins. Flowers axillary, solitary, bell 

 shaped, pendulous, and of a deep orange color. Dr. Hooker 

 says he " must leave others to decide whether this plant 

 should be placed among the Liliaceae or Smilaceae, or whether 

 the two families are really distinct. It seems, in habit, al- 

 most to unite the Fritillary Group, which it mostly resem- 

 bles in general appearance, with the Convallareae section in 

 Smilaceae, with which it agrees in the union of the sepals 

 into one piece." 



