484 FloiHcultural and Botanical Notices, 



form a showy spike. In some particulars, this differs generically from the 

 Oenotheras already in cultivation. " Upon the whole, we incline to con- 

 sider it a connecting link between Gaiira and ffinothera." {Bot. Reg., 

 June.) Assimilates in habit to the genus Epilobium. Penny, p. 490. 

 LXXIV. VomdcecE. 



1512 AMELA'NCHIER. 



R6ti<ia. Liniil. many-flwd. aSi or 6 my W N.W.Amer. 1828? Leo Bot. reg. 1589 



" A handsome hardy shrub, in the mode of the snowy mespilus." Ac- 

 cording to the figure, the leaves of the plant are not unlike those of 

 hornbeam ; and the white blossoms are borne densely in the racemes : 

 these latter are shown 2 in. in length, and as if numerously produced. 

 " The petals vary in length : in one of our wild specimens from Mr. 

 Douglas [by whom this species was discovered and sent to England], they 

 are more than three quarters of an inch long. . . . A. florida is at once 

 recognised by the shortness of its stamens ; otherwise it is very near akin 

 to A. sanguinea." (Bot. Beg., June.) 



LXXVII. Leguminoscs. 



1252. BURTO^N///. 



conKrta Dec. clnstexeH-Jlwd. * l_1 or 2 jl.s V S. W. N. HoU. 1830. C s.p Bot. reg. 1600 



" A very pretty green-house shrub, forming a compact bush ; " whose 

 upright (at least, ascending) graceful branches, clothed with leaves not 

 very unlike those of some species of heath, are crowned by a corymb of 

 numerous, violet-coloured, pea-shaped blossoms. The heath-like appear- 

 ance of the leaves is produced by the edges of every leaf being rolled back 

 until they almost meet. B. conferta flowered in July, 1832, in the nur- 

 sery of Mr. Knight, into which it had been introduced by Mr. Baxter, 

 (Bot. Beg., July.) 



1262. PULTENjEM. [Bot. mag. 3254 



subumbelia.ta //oo/f. subumbellatej?iii(/. *: ! or 1 ap O.Y Van Die. Land 1831. C s.p.l 



" For the possession of this highly ornamental green-house plant, the 

 Glasgow Botanic Garden is indebted to Dr. Scott ; who sent seeds from 

 Van Diemen's Land, from which plants were raised that blossomed in 

 April, 183.3. The flowers are very bright-coloured, and almost every 

 branch bears a head of them ; and the variegated vexillum, or standard, is 

 singularly exposed, so that its colours may be seen to the best advantage." 

 (Bot. Mag., July.) 



Oxylobium Pultene« is figured in the Botanical Cabinet for July, t. 1947. 



It is a pleasing shrub, whose leaves are disposed in a whorl of four, or of 



three ; or scattered along the upright branches, which are severally (such 



as produce flowers) terminated by a head of yellow pea-shaped blossoms. 



1985. iUPrNUS. 

 17711. rivul^ris Lindl. river side ^ A or 3 mys W.B.P California 1831. S co Bot. reg. 1595 



Sent to the London Horticultural Society by Mr. Douglas. " It forms 

 a handsome hardy perennial, flowering in great profusion from May to 

 September. In some respects, this is even a better species for gardens 

 than L. polyphyllus ; for, if it is less stately, it is more gay in its appear- 

 ance, and a longer flowerer. The diversity of colours in the petals [white, 

 blue, and purple], no doubt, contributes very much to this effect ; which is 

 increased by the plant's loose, but not straggling, mode of growth. It in- 

 creases freely by seeds and cuttings." (Bot. Reg., July.) 



1980. ADE'SMIA. [Bot. mis. 3. p. 193 



Loudun«a Hook and Arnott Loudon's HI i ! or 2 my.jn Y Valparaiso 1832. S p.l 



LoudbnM anthylloides Bertero, Gard. Mag. vol. vii. p. 690. note *. 



A shrub with upright branches, which are copiously clad with hoary, 

 pinnate, very silky leaves ; and each of these, in the terminal portion of 

 the branches, bears in its axil a pleasing yellow blossom. As the leaves 

 are numerous, so are the flowers ; and the number and beauty of both 

 render Adesmia Loud6n2« an interesting, ornamental, and, therefore, de- 



