584- Floricultural and Botanical Notices, 



leaves, and its flowers produced towards the ends of the branches* 

 These are about the size of those of the tulip tree ; conspicuous, 

 handsome, fragrant, and honey-bearing : the petals are of a 

 delicate pale primrose or cream colour, with the part a little 

 above their base of a deep purplish red. 

 XLIII. Yhiladelphcce. 



DEO'TZ/J Thun. ; (Named, by Thunberg, after John Deulz, sheriff of Amsterdam, &c. ; 



who was one of the gentlemen by whose assistance that botanist was enabled to prosecute his 



researches in Japan.) 10. 3. Sp. 1. — 

 scabra Thun. rough-leafed Hk or 6 ? my W Japan 1833. C co Bot. reg. 1718 



Introduced, in 1833, by J. Reeves, Esq.; who presented a 

 plant of it to the Horticultural Society. This plant has pro- 

 duced the specimen figured, and supplied the means of the 

 following information : — Deutzz'a scabra is a hardy shrub, of 

 small dimensions ; which thrives in common garden soil, and 

 may be propagated, without difficulty, by cuttings or layers. 

 " It appears to require to be trained to a stick, as its branches 

 are not stiff enough to stand erect ; and it seems to have some- 

 thing of a climbing habit : it is doubtful, however, whether this 

 is not owing to weakness in its cultivated state." The leaves are 

 opposite, in pairs, ovate, acuminate, and serrate; dark green. 

 The flowers are white, five-petaled, not so large as those of a 

 snowdrop ; but produced, many together, in numerous clusters 

 at the tips of the branches'; and thus, in contrast widi the dark- 

 green foliage, render the plant a very ornamental one. ( Bot. 

 Meg., Nov.) A figure of this species had just previously been 

 published in part iv. of Royle's Illustrations of the Botany and 

 other Branches of the Natural History of the Himalayan Moun- 

 tains, and of the Flora of Cashmere, 



XL VI. Cdctea?. 



3359. ECHINOCA'CTUS. 



oxygona L/c. $ 0. sharp-angled tt. Z3 gr 1 — Pa.Ro Brazil 1831 ? C s.l Bot. reg. 1717 



The stem is from 10 in. to 1 ft. in height, and nearly 10 in. in 

 diameter at the top. The flowers proceed from the ridges, about 

 the middle of the stem : they are nearly 1 ft. long. Petals of a 

 pale rose colour: those of the specimen figured remained ex- 

 panded about forty-eight hours. The figure has been derived 

 from the unrivalled collection (late Mr. Hitchen's) of Mr. F. 

 Mackie, Nursery, Norwich. See p. 63. (Bot. Beg., Nov.) 



XLVII. Onagrdrice. 



1183. ffiNOTHE v RA. 



I)ri;mm6ndzi Hook. Drummond's -i _£yj or | ? au.s Y Texas 1833. C s.l Bot. mag. 3361 



Mr. Drummond has sent the seeds of this and of another 

 species of Oenothera from Brazosia ; both of which have flowered 

 copiously in the Glasgow Botanic Garden. The flower of (E. 

 DrummondzV vies in size and colour with that of CE. macro- 

 carpa, missouriensis, and grandiflora. Its stems are decumbent, 

 branched, and succulent. It flourishes in the open air, though 

 a native of Texas. (Bot. Mag., Nov.) 



