584< Moricultural and Botanical Notices, 



and very scarce Mus« from Dacca. — A. BourJce Lambert. Boy- 

 ton House, Sept. 4. 1835. 



The Cratae^gus mexicana has ripened its fruit regularly for the 

 last five or six years here. — William Chalmers, Gardener, Tere- 

 nurc, near Dublin. Sept. 18. 1835. 



[A specimen of the fruit and a spine were sent with this in- 

 formation; the spine to exhibit that C. mexicana bears spines. 

 The spine sent us is about 1| in. long. The fruit consists of a 

 coryml3 of five pomes, not ripe ; the two largest are not twice the 

 size of the larger of the pomes of the hawthorn of British 

 hedges, green, and villous. Six leaves are about the corymb.] 



LXXVII. Leguminbsce. 



1235. EDWA'KDS/1. 



Ii039« childnsis Miers Chilian ± \ I or ... ap.my Y Chile 1822 L 1 Bot. reg. 1798 



Synonyme : Sophbra macroc^rpa Sm., Bot. cab. 1125. ; Loudon's Hort brit. No. 29258. 



Perhaps this is more eligible for cultivation for ornament than 

 either the grandiflora or the microphylla, although both these 

 are so beautiful. A plant seen in flower, in Messrs. Loddiges's 

 nursery, on April 28. 1835, trained to the face of a wall, was 

 beautiful in its flowers, and seemed preferable to microphylla in 

 showing a more free habit of growth and flowering, and having 

 its flowers in groups of racemes : the groups of racemes gave a 

 greater showiness and fulness of floral ornament than the more 

 separated golden tubular bells, pendulous from the branchlets 

 of the microphylla, give to that. The corollas of E. chilensis are 

 more yellow than golden ; the leaves and leaflets largish, greyer, 

 and perhaps morevillose, than in either grandiflora or microphylla. 

 The plant in Messrs. Loddiges's nursery might be 5 ft. high or 

 moi'e, of many shoots proceeding, apparently, from a stump of a 

 stem about level with the ground, and these trained to a space of 

 wall of, it might be, & ft. wide. — J. D. 



Dr. Lindley has communicated that E. chilensis is " a fine 

 tree, native of Chile, where the inhabitants call it Mayu;" and 

 has stated that he believes that at present it only exists, in Britain, 

 in the collection of Messrs. Loddiges. {Bot. Reg., Oct.) 



1262. PULTEN^M. [Bot. mag. 3443 



cordata Grah. sharp-heatt-lenfed * i 1 or 2 ? ap O Van Diemen's Land 1832 C s.p.l 



Shrub erect. Branches red ; when very young, green. Leaves 

 crowded, petiolate, spreading, cordate-ovate, acute, terminated 

 by a pungent bristle. Petioles red. Calyx red. Flowers in heads, 

 two to five in a head ; the heads at the tips of branches, and, 

 by the figure, solitary there. Flowers perfumed, but not plea- 

 santly. Corolla orange-coloured, its keel red-orange-coloured 

 at the tip. Cordata " was raised at the Botanic Garden, Edin- 

 burgh, in 1832, from seeds sent from Van Diemen's Land, the 

 year before, by Campbell Riddell, Esq. It flowered very freely 

 in the green-house in April, 1835, and is highly ornamental, 

 notwithstanding the lurid colour of its foliage and branches." 

 {Dr. Graham, in Bot. Mag., Oct.) 



