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being more robust in its growth, with narrower 

 leaves, longer flower stalks, and a more spreading 

 umbel. It may be easily cultivated in a cool 

 green-house. — (Serapia* (the Egyptian divinity) 

 cordigera var. longipetala ; Orchideae. {Jig. 30.) 

 A " beautiful spring flower, common about Rome, 

 in very dry soil." It is mentioned by Tenore as 

 abounding at the foot of Mount Vesuvius, near 

 Ottojano, Mauro, Mortelle, Portici, &c., inva- 

 riably in very dry meadows. — Adenotrichia {aden, 

 a gland, thrix, hairj intermixture of hairs and 

 glands over the whole plant) amplexicaulis ; Corn- 

 posits. A pretty green-house herbaceous plant, 

 flowering in Maj'. Brought from Chile, by Mr. 

 James M'Rae, to the Horticultural Society, in 

 1826. — Cytisus multiflorus; Leguminosae. "A 

 very beautiful hardy border shrub, remarkable for 

 the profusion of bright yellow flowers with which 

 its long slender branches are laden." It does not 

 grow above 2 or 3 ft. high, and is easily propagated 

 by layers. Its native country is unknown. — De\- 

 phinium MenziesM/ i^anunculacese. A beautiful 

 hardy upright perennial, with d6ep purple 

 flowers, from the north-west coast of North Ame- 

 rica, by Mr. Menzies, and recently by Mr. 

 Douglas.— Conanthera (konos, a cone, and anthera, 

 an anther; conical arrangement) campanulata; 

 j4sphodele«. A hardy bulbous-rooted green- 

 house plant, remaining in flower for several 

 weeks, and remarkable for the intense bright blue 

 of its nodding blossoms. It is a native of the 

 higher range of the Cordilleras, " appearing 

 among the earliest of the vernal flowers with 

 which the greensward is adorned on the first 

 melting of the snow." It requires a light sandy 

 loam, well watered when coming into flower, but after the blossoming is 

 over to be kept dry. — Calandrinia grandiflora ; Portulaceae. A beautiful 

 succulent from Chile, to the Horticultural Society, by Mr. James M'Rae, in 

 1826. It is a handsome bush, with large bright rosy purple flowers, and fair 

 glaucous leaves. Great care is required in its cultivation ; cuttings or seeds. 



No. X, for December, contains 



1195 to 1202. — Hameha (the celebrated Henry 

 Louis DuhamelDumonceau, " whose researches 

 in vegetable physiology are the most perfect 

 model of patient investigation, and accurate de- 

 duction, with which botanists are acquainted") 

 ventricosa; ^ubiaceae. " A handsome hot- 

 house plant, growing vigorously, and flowering 

 in abundance in nearly all the summer months." 

 It becomes a large tree in its native country^ 

 Jamaica, yielding handsome variegated planks, 

 called by the cabinet-makers Spanish elm or 

 king wood. — Pyrus spuria; Pomaceae. {fig. 

 31.) A handsome shrub, or small tree, but 

 little known, and rarely seen in gardens. It has 

 been supposed to be the hybrid offspring of 

 the mountain ash, and the arbutus-leaved pear 



