the appearance almost of a corymb, consisting of a considerable num- 
ber of pale blue flowers. BracTs usually none. Pepicexs half an 
inch to three quarters in length. Calyx short, cup-shaped, smooth, 
divided at the top into five broad short lobes, which are slightly 
pointed and membranous on the margin. Coroxua rotate, nearly an 
inch in diameter, divided to the middle into five broadly oval lanceo- 
late lobes. ANTHERS yellow, all equal and similar. 
Porutar aNp GeocrapuicaL Notice. This is one of several 
ornamental species of this extensive genus found in the neighbourhood 
of Buenos Ayres, where it is said to be not uncommon, in hedges, by 
the side of ditches and marshes and other rich situations. It appears 
to vary in the proportionate length and breadth of the leaves, in the 
looser or more dense inflorescence, and perhaps in the size of the 
flowers, even ina wild state. There are also among Mr. Tweedie’s 
wild specimens some in which’ he ascribes a fine blue colour to the 
flowers instead of the more usual pale blue, but they all seem to belong 
to one species. G. B. 
INTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CuLTURE. This species was 
originally described by Lamarck and Poiret, from wild specimens 
brought home by Commerson, but we believe that the plant of which we 
now publish a figure is the first introduced to British cultivation. Its 
seeds were collected at Buenos Ayres, by Mr. Tweedie, and introduced 
to his Grace the Duke of Portland’s gardens, at Welbeck, in 1838. 
Mr. Tillery, under whose very judicious management this evergreen 
shrub was raised, informs us that it is now (1840) three feet high, that 
it has been in flower in the stove all the summer; and, in addition to 
its being tal, itis very fragrant. Mr. Tillery finds that cuttings 
- strike root readily ; and that it fourishes in a compost of loam, sand, 
and peat. 
DERIVATION oF THE NAMES. 
Soranum, from Solari, to assuage, in reference to the sedative and soothing 
properties of some of the species employed in medicine. AneustiFoLtuM, 
narrow-leaved. 
SynonyMEs. 
Soranum ancustirorium. Lamarck: Illustrations, n. 2343. Dunal Mono- 
gtaphie des Solanum, p. 159. 
