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thick dark foliage, and enliven the trees from February to July 

 or August, when the fruit is principally in season. The fullest 

 bloom is in March or April; and, just after this, the trees are 

 beautifully enriched by the fine cinnamon-coloured or reddish 

 young leaves or shoots. Nothing can exceed the loveliness and 

 delicate appearance of the fruit ; its rich clusters half-hidden by 

 the dark thick tufts of foliage which clothe the outer branches. 

 The fruit is a drupe-like berry, pear-shaped or subglobose, about 

 1 in. in diameter. Although one or two berries may be eaten 

 with some relish, their overpowering perfume, and taste of rose- 

 water, together with the want of juice, render the fruit generally 

 unpalatable ; and it is entirely excluded from the table or des- 

 sert, except to satisfy occasional curiosity. The fruit is produced 

 in the greatest profusion ; but used for no other purpose than 

 sometimes to feed the pigs, which eat it greedily. The compre- 

 hensive figure published exhibits various stages of the plant's 

 flowering and fruiting. {Bot. Mag., Oct.) 

 LXXVII, Legumindscu. 



2837 ^CA^CIA 

 24668a brevipes Cm. short-pediceled *| ] or 6 sp ":■ Y N.S.W. 1810? C s.l.p Bot. mag. 3358 



Appears closely allied to A. multinervia Dec. It is figured 

 from the Kew collection, in which it has been cultivated upwards 

 of twenty years. It is there a shrub of rather robust growth, 

 with upright branches. The phyllodia (leaves) are from 4 in. to 

 6 in. long, lanceolate-oblong, falcate. Heads of flowers pale yel- 

 low ; borne, upon a very short stalk, in the axils of the phyllodia 

 (leaves). {Bot. Mag., Oct.) 



XCIII. Celastrinece. 



35. 2868. MAY'TENUS. 



253a chilensis Dec. Chilian * | or 8 my G.Y Chile 1829? C p.s.l Bot. reg. 1702 



Dr. Liildley suspects that this may be even the same as M. boaria Mol., No. 253. of Hort Brit. 



A handsome evergreen shrub ; which has been growing, for 

 some years, in the garden of the London Horticultural Society. 

 It succeeds best trained to the front of a south wall; but it also 

 survives the winter without even that slight protection. It is a 

 branchy shrub, with twiggy branchlets. Leaves lanceolate, ser- 

 rate. Flowers in axillary groups of about four each, not showy. 

 Corolla of a yellow-green colour. [Bot. Reg., figure in Sept. ; 

 description in Oct.) 



CXLIV. Vortuldcece. 



3357. CALANDRI'NIJ. 



discolor Schrad. ? two-coloured-//tf. *L i ] or 1|? jl.au Bt.Ro Chile? 1834? S s.l Bot. mag. 3357 



Stem half-shrubby. Leaves spathulate ; of a glaucous green 

 on the surface, purplish red beneath. Flowers large, twice the 

 size of those of C. grandiflora, produced from the tips of the 

 branches : petals obcordate, of a bright rose colour. Figured 

 from the Glasgow Botanic Garden, into which it had been 

 received from the botanic garden at Gottingen. [Bot. Mag., Oct.) 



