1 72 Floricultural and Botanical Notices, 



XL VI. Cactece. 



1474. OPU'NTIA. 



fcylindrica Dec. cyVmAxic-branched * ZD gr 6 ... S Peru 1799. C s.l Bot. mag. 3301 

 Cereus cylindricus Hort. Brit., No. 12578. ; Opuntia cylfndrica Hort. Brit, p. 479. 



This very interesting species, which has not yet flowered in Britain, has at 

 length flowered in a Madeira garden. The flowers are produced, several 

 together, just below the ends of the branches, rather small and inconspicuous, 

 about 1 in. in diameter, scarlet. O. cylindrica " is truly intermediate between 

 Cereus and Opuntia." {Bot. Mag., Feb.) 



Cereus triangularis will, like Cucumis Melo, the Melon Plant, emit Boots into 

 contiguous Water. — In the end of 1833, I was shown, in the hot-house of the 

 Rev. Edward Mathew, Pentlow Hall, Cavendish, Suffolk, Cereus triangularis 

 rooting freely into water. The plant was standing near a leaden cistern 

 occupied by water and growing plants of Aympha2 v a caerulea and minor. 

 The Cereus triangularis had extended some of its branches within a short 

 distance of the water, and these had emitted roots freely into the water. — 

 N. S. Hodson. Bury St. Edmunds, Jan. 1834-. 



LXXIII. 'Rosacea;. 



1522. .RCrSA 13470 indica. [Sw.fl.gar. 2.s. 229 



nivea D. Don white double-flowered Noisette's *or3jt W.R Gardens 1831? CI 



Imported from France, by Mr. Dennis, nurseryman, Chelsea, under the name of Aime Vibert ; 



and is doubtless a hybrid production, most probably originated between Boss, indica and B. mos- 



chata. (Z». Don.) 



Flowers very full of snow-white rather crumpled petals ; the outer petals of 

 the expanded flowers, and the exterior petals of the flower-buds, are of a deep 

 red colour. From forty to fifty flowers, disposed in a corymb, terminate some 

 of the shoots ; and, as all the shoots evince a propensity to produce flowers 

 wood-shoots for cuttings are but sparingly supplied. {The British Floiver- 

 Garden, March.) Mr. Dennis has informed us that he has also imported 

 a beautiful variety, whose habit is in the mode of the " four-seasons " 

 variety : it has rather large flowers, full of petals, which have a lilac-purple 

 ground, and are striped with white. He also possesses the double-flowered 

 Macartney, the flowers of which are beautiful, full of petals (double), and 

 fragrant. 



LXX1V. VomdcecB. 



1507. PYMtUS. 

 ■f-12951 crenata D. Don notched-//^. 1 or 15 my.jn W Nepal 1820. G c Bot. reg. 1655 



The fine large leaves of this species render it to be desired in the shrub- 

 bery ; its flowers, too, are ornamental. It is to be increased by grafting on 

 the whitethorn. The figure is from a plant in the London Horticultural 

 Society's garden. See also in p. 169. {Bot. Beg., March.) 



LXXVII. Leguminosce. 



1260. GASTROLCT-BIUM. 

 10566a retiisum Lindl. blunt-7/a\ * l_J or 1| my O.S N. Holl. 1830. C s.l.p Bot. reg. 1647 



" A smaller plant than G. bilobum. Its flowers are of the same rich orange 

 yellow, but in smaller heads ; and their keel is not purple, but of the same 

 colour as the other petals." According to the figure, each head is composed 

 of about twenty flowers : the heads are both terminal and axillary. Mr. 

 Knight, Chelsea, possesses it ; he raised it from seeds collected by Mr. Bax- 

 ter. " It is a pretty green-house plant, easily propagated by cuttings." {Bot. 

 Beg., Feb.) 



1945. SCO'TTW. 

 17311a la? Vis Lindl. smooth-branched * | | or 3 jn.s? Y.S N. Holl. 1833. C s.p Bot. reg. 1652 



A third species of the rare genus Scottifl. Mr. Knight, Chelsea, has raised 

 it from seeds collected by Mr. Baxter. " It differs from S. dentata, not only 

 in its flowers having no tinge of red, and in its narrower, more finely toothed 

 leaves, but also in its branches being altogether free from the numerous rough 

 projecting points which are found upon those of both the other species." 

 S. laeVis is " a delicate green-house plant : it requires a cool shelf in the 

 winter, and abundant ventilation." {Bot. Beg., Feb.) 



