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appendiculata Cav. appendicled £ _AJ or 3 my.jn R °.C Chiloe 1831. S p.l Sw.fl.gar.2. s.151 

 A very ornamental, and therefore very desirable, novelty. It was 

 raised at Low's Nursery, Clapton, from seeds collected by Mr. Anderson, 

 near the port of San Carlos de Chiloe. Mr. Anderson accompanied 

 Captain King, in the capacity of botanist, in his recent voyage of survey 

 on the coasts of South America. Francos appendiculata appears to 

 succeed well in England, in the open border of a garden, where its tail 

 clusters of rosy blossoms, marked with deep crimson, render it a conspi- 

 cuous object. Two other species, F. sonchifdlia W., also with rosy 

 blossoms, and F. ramosa D. Don, which has white flowers, have been 

 recently introduced from seeds collected by Mr. Hugh Cuming, in Chile. 

 (Mr. D. Don, in Sweet's Flower-Garden, July.) A plant of Francoa 

 appendiculata, in full flower, was exhibited at the Linnaean Society's 

 Meeting on June 19., from Low's Nursery, Clapton; and a description of 

 it, by Mr. D. Don, was read. 



CL VI. VolygbnecE. Coccoloba (kohhos seed, and lobos, a lobe ; from the 

 lobed seed, not fruit as stated in Hori. Brit.') pubescens L. is figured in 

 the Bot. Mag. for July, t. 3166. This is a plant of much interest in 

 British stoves, on account of the very large size of its cordately based 

 orbicular leaves, which sometimes attain to an expansion of two feet in 

 diameter. I once saw a leaf almost of this size produced on the plant in 

 the stove of the Cambridge Botanic Garden. This plant produced a 

 single raceme of flowers, for the first time (and it had never been pre- 

 viously known to flower in Britain, although introduced in 1690), in the 

 beginning of February, 1832 : but, owing to the bad condition of the hot- 

 house, which seldom allows of its retaining a temperature of more than a 

 few degrees above 60°, none of the flowers appear to have expanded 

 properly. Of them, however, Professor Henslow has availed himself as 

 fully as he could, and contributed to the Bot. Mag. the result of his 

 researches : these are of botanical rather than of gardening interest. 

 According to Jacquin, the Coccoloba pubescens becomes an inelegant 

 upright tree, between 60 ft. and 80 ft. high. It is a native of the West 

 Indies, and very common in the mountain forests of Martinique. The 

 wood is hard, heavy, deep red, and almost incorruptible. When used for 

 posts, the part in the ground becomes as hard as stone. The fruit is said 

 to be eatable. (Bot. Mag., July.) 

 CLXX. T&rtcece § verce. 



4173. £RrCA. § I. Tubiflbra?. 



dichrumata^.C. two-coloured it i | or 3 aut.w Y.Pk C.G.H. 1800. C s.p Bot. cab. 1813 



The flowers are beautiful, the tubular corols being pink at their base 

 for about one third of their length, and the remainder yellow. The shrub 

 is usually two feet high before it begins to flower. (Bot. Cab., June.) 



Tubiflbra?. 

 verecunda B. C. ruddy-fluid *S i ] or 3 su.aut Ro C.G.H. 1820. C s.p Bot. cab. 1827 



This, according to the figure, is quite an ornamental kind : its tubular 

 red corols seem numerously produced, and have a pendulous direction. 

 " It grows vigorously, and attains a considerable size." (Bot. Cab., July.) 



TLricecs § Hhodordcece. 



In Sweet's British Flower-Garden for June, t. 148., the white-flowered 

 tree rhododendron is figured from the Chelsea Botanic Garden. This has 

 hitherto been named .Rhododendron arboreum 2 album \ but Mr. D. Don 

 concurs with Mr. Sweet in considering it a perfectly distinct species, to 

 which Mr. Sweet has applied the specific name of album ; a name which 

 cannot be retained, because previously occupied by the R. album of Pursh, 

 the second species in both the Hortus Britannicus of Sweet and that of 

 Loudon. This white tree rhododendron, be the specific name hereafter 

 agreed upon for it what it may, " differs from R. arboreum by its rigid 



