Notes upon Mr. Scott's Report. 17 



Q. xalapensis Humb. Arb. Brit., abr. ed., p. 898. fig. 1667. 

 Another fine species, with ovate-lanceolate leaves. 



Q. glabra Thunb., Arb. Brit., abr. ed., p. 893. ; Q. dentdta 

 Thunb., ibid. p. 893. ; Q. rugbsa Willd., ibid. p. 904-. fig. 1691. ; 

 a species from Assam ; and another from Nepal. These five 

 are very fine plants ; and all of them, I think, will live out of 

 doors here. The first three species have already been proved 

 quite hardy, both in England and France. 



Tooting Nursery, Nov. 17. 1841. 



Art. IV. Notes upon Mr. Scott's Report. By G. Gordon, A.L.S. 



[We scarcely ever send the communication of one corre- 

 spondent to be commented on by another before it is pub- 

 lished; but we made an exception in this case, with Mr. Scott's 

 consent, in order that we might get all the information we could 

 for the Supplementary List to the abridged edition of our Arbo- 

 retum Britannicum, which will be printed and published before 

 the appearance of our February Number.] 



QLlfMJTIS californica. Probably a new species, but a very 

 doubtful name, as I cannot find any such name in Douglas's 

 Californian Herbarium, or amongst any of his memorandums ; 

 nor is any such name to be found in Steudel's Nomenclator, or 

 in any other modern catalogue that I have access to : there- 

 fore, I think it very doubtful ; for generally when a plant is 

 named after a country, it either is the most common in that 

 country or very plentiful there. 



Illicium religibsum, or Skimi of the Japanese, is most pro- 

 bably nothing more than a variety of I. anisatum, with which 

 the people in Japan ornament their temples ; hence the specific 

 name. 



Yitis heterophylla is nearly related to Cissus antarctica, with 

 the leaves much more jagged, and variegated with white. The 

 plants bear clusters of small blue fruit, which are very orna~ 

 mental. It certainly must be a species of Cissus, of slender 

 growth, and tender ; probably it may be the Fitis heterophylla of 

 Thunberg, a plant from Java. 



Ylex latifblia is a splendid hardy evergreen from Japan, which 

 should be in every collection. [In the Epsom Nursery, it is 

 quite hardy, and bears leaves 9 in. long.] 



Sophora grandiflbra ?. Is it not Edwards?a grandiflora, an old 

 plant ? 



Indigofera nepalensis. Probably a garden name applied to 

 one of the numerous specimens of Indigofera from the north of 

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