supplementary to Encyc. of Plants and Horf. Brit. 259 



netted veins, and downy; flowers small, axillary, in little 

 groups ; corolla of a yellow so pale as to be near to white. It 

 has the habit of some of the Australian sidas ; but the structure 

 of the flower is " entirely that of the New Zealand Plagianthus 

 divaricatus." The late Mr. Lawrence sent native seeds of it 

 from Van Diemen's Land to the Glasgow Botanic Garden, 

 where it produced its small and unobtrusive flowers in the 

 green-house in Sept. 1834. [Bot. Mag., April.) 



Plants DicoTyLEDONOus, Monopetalous. 

 CLXX. 'EiricdcecB. 



1345. ^'RBUTUS. [west coast of North America 1835. L s.l Bot. reg. 1573 



liOlSaT^roclxa Douglas tall * | or 15? my Gsh.W Mountainous woody parts of the north- 



Resembles A. u4ndr^chne : but differs from it altogether in the 

 form and serratures of its leaves, and in the form and size of its 

 flowers : the corollas are of a delicate greenish white. It requires 

 to be carefully protected from extreme cold in winter, and suc- 

 ceeds best against a west wall. Figured from the nursery of 

 Mr. Osborn, Fulham. {Bot. Reg., April.) 



*' ^'rbutus Miller/ is a new variety which has been raised at 

 the nursery [of Mr. Miller, Bristol] by seed from the scarlet 

 [corollaed] variety of [^'rbutus L/^nedo] the common arbutus, 

 and ^'rbutus ^ndrachne. [It is meant, doubtlf^ss, that the 

 ovule of that particular seed of the one of the two species named, 

 from whose seed y^'rbutus Miller/ has arisen, had been imbued 

 with the pollen of the other species : to which species the seed 

 was respective, or to which the pollen, is not stated.] It is far 

 superior to any other variety with which we are acquainted. Its 

 flowers are of a delicate pink colour, with broad leaves ; and it is 

 altogether a fine ornamental shrub, and will be a great acquisition 

 to the pleasure-ground. It has been flowering finely, but its 

 bloom is now [early in Dec. 1834] almost over." [Mr. M. 

 Mayes, in The West of England Journal of Science and Litera- 

 ture, Jan. 1835.) 



1339. jBHODODE'NDRON indicum D. Don. Azklea fndica Z. 



[phoenfceum ,? ) 1830. C p.l Sw.fl.gar.2.s.284 

 var. speci6sum D. Don s\\ov/y-corollaed * i I spl 4 my P Eng. hybrid (fndicum 9, 



" This splendid variety was raised at Coombe Wood, the seat 

 of the late Earl of Liverpool, by Mr. William Smith [now nur- 

 seryman at Norbiton Common, near Kingston, Surrey]. It 

 was raised, in 1830, from seeds obtained from R. indicum 

 (Azalea indica) that had been impregnated with the pollen of 

 R. phoeniceum (Azalea indica phcenicea). It is nearly hardy, 

 and a very free flowerer, beginning to blossom about the 1st of 

 May. . . . Figures 1. and 2., in our plate, represent the flowers 

 of two other varieties raised from the same stock of seeds ; one 

 of them frequently becoming semidouble." [Brit. Flow.-Gard., 

 April.) , 



