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leaves have withered; but I believe this opinion to be wholly unfounded, 

 and that the blossoms are always generated whilst the living foliage remains 

 attached to the bulb." 



Mr. Knight has made nearly similar experiments upon some 

 fibrous-rooted plants, without the aid of artificial heat, with 

 similar results, an account of which he reserves for future 

 communication. 



24. Report upon the New or Rare Plants which havefoivered in the 

 Garden of the Horticultural Society at Chiswick, from March, 

 1824. to March, 1825. By Mr. John Lindley, F.L.S. &c. As- 

 sistant-Secretary for the Garden. Read January 3. 1826. 



This report may be considered a continuation of that made 

 in 1824. (Gard. Mag. vol. i. p. 302.) All the plants included 

 it it being described in our Encyclopaedia of Plants and 

 Hortus Britannicus, it would be a waste of room to do more 

 than enumerate their names, with the exception of a few, 

 which may be considered ornamental, or more than commonly 

 curious, and to these names we shall add a few remarks. 



Tender Plants. 



Trees or Shrubs. — 1. Diospyrus vaccinioides. Lindley. 2. Ardisia punc- 

 tata. Lind. 3. Callicarpa rubella. Lind. 4. Callicarpa longifolia. Lamarck. 

 5. Quisqualis Indica. Linn. Bot. Reg. 492, and 

 Bot. Mag. 2033. {Jig. 51.) " Trained to; the 

 wires of an iron curvilinear stove, so that its \ 

 stem and leaves were as near as possible to the 

 light, this plant flowered in unceasing beauty 

 and profusion through the whole summer. 

 From the end of March to the middle of 

 October the house was perfumed with its 

 delicious fragrance, and enlivened by the vary 

 ing hues of its bunches of changeable orange 

 and ruby-coloured flowers. The plant is easily 

 propagated and cultivated, but requires the 

 constant heat of a good stove, and a free ex- 

 posure to light." 



6. Nauclea adina. Smith. 7. Cassinia lep- 

 tophylla. R.Brown. 8. Grewia affinis. 9. Cle- 

 rodendron lividum. Lind. Bot. Reg. 945. A hardy green-house plant, of 

 a livid appearance and little beauty. The stamens are, after the bursting 

 of the anthers, rigidly curled back to each side of the corolla ; offering a 

 striking example of that kind oP motility which M. Dutrochet, in his 

 Recherches sur la Structure des Animaux et des Vegetaux, et sur leurMotilite, 

 calls fixed incurvation. 



10. Prockia crucis. Linn. 11. Diplolepis ovata. 12. Murraya panicu- 

 lata. De Candolle. Hooker's Exotic Flora, 134. From Sumatra, in 1823. 

 A naked arborescent stove shrub, six feet high, with pinnated leaves. The 

 blossoms are white, and have a delicious fragrance, resembling that of the 

 orange ; and all the parts of the plant, on being bruised, emit a pleasing 

 resinous smell. 



