400, Floricultural and Botanical Notices^ 



' " Seeds of it have been hitherto produced by it in such small quantities, 

 that it still remains extremely rare." 



2837. ^4CA^CIA 

 +24679 elongata Sieb. \ox\g-branohed * i_J or 6 ap.jn Y N.S.W. 1823. C s.l.p Bot. mag. 3337 

 +24716 umbrbsa Cun. shade-inhabiting * i_| fra 25 sp Pa.Y N.S.W. 1823. C s.Lp Bot. mag. 3338 



Both these are figured from specimens supplied from the Kew collection ; 

 and the descriptions of them include notes on them by Mr. Allan Cunning- 

 ham. A. elongata is of a slender and graceful habit, and has drooping angular 

 branches, narrow linear phyllodia (leaves) 3 in. or more in length, and nume- 

 rous globose heads, about the size of a pea, of rather deep yellow scentless 

 flowers produced two or three together, upon peduncles rather more than 

 half an inch long, from the axils of the phyllodia (leaves). A. umbrosa 

 delights in dry shaded woods in New South Wales. The phyllodia are 4 in. 

 or 5 in. long, oblong-lanceolate, marked with two or three strong nerves. The 

 flowers are produced in Britain in the spring, are powerfully fragrant, pale 

 yellow, clustered into many globose heads, which are disposed, from seven to 

 nine, upon axillary racemes. (Bot. Mag., July.) 



; CXIa. Cornece Dec. Of Benthamza fragifera, Mr. John Roberts, gardener 

 to J. H. Tremayne, Esq., Heligan, Cornwall, has sent us some specimens in 

 flower. His letter is dated June 26. The specimens quite confirm the idea 

 of the desirableness of this shrub, already given, with other particulars respect- 

 ing it, in IX. 367., X. 60. 69. The specimens (two) appear to be the tips of 

 two branches : one of these bears eight branchlets, and seven of them are, and 

 the eighth has been, terminated each by a head of flowers, green, small, sub- 

 tended by four large cream-yellow involucral leaves; the other specimen has 

 three branchlets, each tipped with a head of flowers attended by the involucral 

 leaves. Only some few of the individual flowers in the heads were bearing 

 petals. The plant, Mr. Roberts informs us, is 17 ft. high, spreads proportion- 

 ably, and has its stem, at the bottom, 1 J ft. in circumference ; and presents the 

 appearance of a small tree. With regard to the climate of Heligan, Mr. Ro- 

 berts has known the snow to lie on the ground for three weeks ; and has 

 seen the thermometer as low as it has been in London. 

 CXXIV. TropceUece. 



CHYMOC A'RPUS D. Don. {Chymos, juicy, karpos, fruit ; the fruit is a black juicy berry.) 



8. 1. Sp. 1—2. — r_Sw. fl. gar. 2. s. 245 



+9316 pentaphyllus D. Don five-leaf/etaZ-Z/tf. 1 _A| or 4 au.o R.G.P Buenos Ayres 1830. C s.p.l 



Tropae^olum pentaphyllum Lam. Mr. D. Don deems this plant the type of a new genus, which he 

 has named as above. He has given his reasons at length in Linn. Trans., xvii. p. 14. and 145. 

 From the Flower-Garden, we may just quote as follows : — " The most remarkable peculiarity is 

 in the nature of its fruit, which is a black juicy berry, not unlike, both in appearance and 

 flavour, the Zante grape. Besides the reduced number of its petals [there are but two], a cha- 

 racter the importance of which I am not disposed to insist much upon, the genus likewise differs 

 in the persistent nature and valvate aestivation of its calyx, that of Tropae^olum being imbricate 



and deciduous I am inclined to think that T. dip^talum Flor. Peruv. will prove a second 



species of Chymocarpus ; and it is possible that Tropae^olum may include the types of other 

 genera, when the nature of the fruit in the different species becomes better known. — — — Chy- 

 mocarpus pentaphyllus is stated to have been introduced in 1824 ; but this information is 

 erroneous, the plant having been first raised by Mr. Neill, in 1830, from seeds collected at Buenos 

 Ayres by Mr, Tweedie." 



Chymocarpus pentaphyllus D. Don, planted early in summer, in an open 

 border, in a mixture of sandy peat and loam, has been found to thrive much 

 more vigorously than when retained in the green-house, to produce a pro- 

 fusion of blossoms, and ripen its fruit freely. Cuttings, planted in pure sand, 

 and placed in a hot-bed, root readily. (The Brit. Flow. -Gar den, July.) 

 - CXXX. VioldcecB. 



701. PTOLA 5708 pedata. 



2 flabellata D. Don fan^tfd. 3f A or ^ o Li.P Georgia 1831. D p Sw.fl.gar.2.s,247 

 Dr. Graham and Mr. D. Don concur in deeming this plant but a variety of V. pedata L., and the 

 V. digitata Ph. as identical with this variety. Mr. D. Don thinks that the V. flabellifblia of 

 Lodd. Bot. Cab. Til. is also identical with it. 



The leaves are divided in a fan-like manner. The corolla is large, and very 

 handsome : lowest petal pale lilac on the inside ; the two uppermost, and the 

 upper half of the two side ones, dark velvet purple ; behind, all the petals are 

 of a pale lilac. " The plant is extremely beautiful, and highly deserving of 

 cultivation in the open border. It was introduced by Mr. Drummond, from 



