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Barclay of Bury Hill, by Charles Telfair, Esq. In the Mauritius it grows 

 almost to a tree, and is in blossom nearly all the year. At Bury Hill it 

 thrives luxuriantly; the flowers are very large, and their shades of red bril- 

 liant and elegant. — Bilbcrgza cruenta; Bvoineliucecs. From Rio Janeiro 

 to the Edinburgh Botanic Garden in 1824.— Colloinia {/co/kt, glue; cha- 

 racter of the seed) linearis. From Colombia, by Mr. Douglas, Dr. Scouler, 

 and others. — C. grandiflora. A fine new annual species, from the same 

 place, by the same excellent collectors. — C. heterophylla. An annual, 

 from Fort Vancouver, by the same collectors. Professor Hooker observes 

 that the genus Collomia seems too closely allied to Gilia, and Mr. Douglas 

 seems to be of the same opinion. — Frankenia pauciflora ; VvankemacecB. 

 An under shrub, with short linear reflected leaves, and terminal pink flowers, 

 from New Holland to the Kew Garden. — Calceolaria polifolia. From 

 the Cordilleras to the Horticultural Society, by Mr. INIacrae. 

 No. XXV II I. for April, contains 



2898 to 2904. — Carica (resemblance to the common fig, T^icus Carica) 

 Papaya (name in East Indies; pi'obably from Papaya in Peru, whence the 

 plant was originally carried thither.) {Jig. 63.) TheJPapaw Carica, or Papaw 

 tree. Dioe'cia Decan. Lin., Nat. Ord. 

 Incertse sedis, probably allied to i7r- 

 ticese ; placed among the Cucurbita- 

 cese by Jussieu but not by Decan- 

 dolle, among the Passiflorae by 

 Richard, and among the Tricoccse 

 by Linnaeus. " An upright, rapidly 

 growing, unbranched tree, with some- 

 what of the habit of a palm, the fo- 

 liage being large, and confined to the 

 top of the tree ; every part yielding 

 a slightly acrid and somewhat milky 

 juice." The stem is occasionally 

 found from 14 to 15 ft. high in our 

 stoves, but in the tropics it grows to 

 the height of 20 ft., and bears fruit 

 in three years, as it will do in the 

 magnificent stoves now erecting at 

 Syon House. The male and female 

 flowers are sometimes on different 

 trees, sometimes on the same tree, 

 and sometimes even hermaphrodite. 

 A tree in the Glasgow Botanic Gar- 

 den produced fruit, the seeds of 

 which yielded young plants, though 

 Dr. Hooker never saw any but male flowers ; female or hermaphrodite 

 flowers must have existed contemporaneously on that or on some other 

 tree, and we confess we are rather disappointed that the Professor's ob- 

 servations on this part of the subject are not more definite. The tree 

 alluded to flowers at almost all seasons of the year, and bears fruit in the 

 autumn and early winter. 



The flowers {a) are of a yellowish white, and when the corolla falls away, 

 the germen in coming to maturity becomes pendent : while the tree, ad- 

 vancing in height, casts its lower leaves from beneath the flowers, and the 

 fruit, constituting a large oblong berry or pepo {b), rests suspended upon 

 the leafless part of the trunk, like the flowers of the Cercis, the spines of 

 Gleditschzrt, or the bread fruit. The characters of the fructification are at 

 variance with those of every hitherto estabhshed natural order, " and we 

 must vvait till new discoveries will enable us to connect it with other vege- 



