suppleinentary to Encyc. of Plants and Hort. Brit. 75 



handsomest of this very pretty Australian genus, whether we con- 

 sider the beauty of its blossoms, or the great quantity of them pro- 

 duced by a single plant, of which one now before us, scarcely 

 a foot high, is loaded with upwards of forty heads of flowers." 

 The figure of this species that is in the Bot. Reg. had been 

 derived from the species in the collection of Mr. Knight, Chelsea. 



197. BA'PHNE 10142 odbra ip.M.m. and s Sw. fl. gar. 2. s. 320 



*2 rObra D. Don ted-perianthed it | or and fra 2 n, latter end Pk China 1831 ? C 



The figure shows an upright branch well furnished with leaves, 

 and terminated by a group of more than a dozen flowers, whose 

 perianths are described to be of a rich pink colour. The leaves 

 are described to be lanceolate, or cuneately lanceolate. The 

 figure has been derived from the kind in a living state, in the 

 collection of Mr. G. Smith, nurseryman, at Islington. " It ap- 

 pears to be of a hardy constitution, having been exposed for 

 some time to a considerable degree of frost, without, apparently, 

 suffering." Mr. Smith, considers it a most desirable kind " for 

 the green-house or conservatory, as, if growing vigorously, it 

 will continue to blossom during the greater part of the year. 

 The flowers are produced in heads at the extremity of almost 

 every shoot ; they are of a dark red in the bud state, becoming 

 paler and glossy after expansion, and they are then highly fra- 

 grant." {Brit. Flow.^Gard., Jan.) 



LXXVII. Legumindcece. 



V/lSTA^RIA sinensis Dec. (ConsequSl«a Loudon), circumstances under which a certain plant of 

 it produces fruit annually. 



" Never having observed in your Magazine any notice of the 

 Wistarza sinensis having fruited in this country, and having a 

 plant of it here, which fruits annually on the open wall, I send 

 you some pods, together with a few observations upon the circum- 

 stances under which it produces its fruit; and, as I fancy its 

 fruiting is rather a rare occurrence in this country, perhaps the 

 observations may not be uninteresting to some of the readers of 

 your Magazine. 



" The plant which produces fruit here is, as far as I have been 

 able to ascertain, about eight years old, and is planted on the side 

 of a gravel walk, with its branches trained on a wall with a south 

 aspect. Shortly after I came here, I was induced, by the stunted 

 appearance of the plant, to examine its roots, and I found that 

 all the roots it had had run into the gravel walk, by the side 

 of which it is planted ; indeed, it seems to prefer the gravel to 

 the neighbouring mould, as I found, on examination, that at any 

 part where the roots had come in contact with the latter, they 

 had invariably receded from it into the walk again. The plant 

 is, certainly, a diminutive specimen ; but it seems to me that its 

 fructiferous habit is entirely to be attributed to the nature of the 

 soil in which it grows; and, I have no doubt, were this species 

 planted in a gravelly, instead of a rich, soil, in which we generally 



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