480 Floricultural and Botanical Notices, 



In this country, says Dr. Lindley, this species "is usually 

 met with in the double state represented in the Bot. Mag., 

 t. 1834.; but the single-flowered kind, now figured, is much 

 more beautiful, and scarcely less fragrant. It is a conservatory 

 plant, of the easiest cultivation ; and, if placed in the open border, 

 in a warm place, during summer, it will remain healthy, and 

 flower abundantly; but it is killed by the first frost." Dr. 

 Lindley adds that a damp stove seems to suit it very well ; that 

 it grows luxuriantly, and requires abundance of syringing over 

 the head, as otherwise it is apt to be infected with insects. The 

 soil should be a rich loam, mixed with leaf mould and sand. 

 It may be easily propagated by cuttings of the half-ripened 

 wood, struck in sand. {Bot. Reg., Aug.) 



Primuldcece. 



455. Cyclamen neapolitanum Tenore, Bot. Reg. n. s. t. 49. 

 " This cyclamen, which should more properly be called au- 

 tumnale, has long been known to our gardens, and is even wild 

 or naturalised in the county of Kent. It is, however, most 

 abundant in the countries near the Mediterranean, particularly 

 in Italy, south of the Apennines. The name neapolitanum has 

 been given to it by Professor Tenore, who was the first to dis- 

 tinguish it critically from its congenei's, with which it has long 

 been confounded under the names /^ederaef61ium and europse^um, 

 which belong to two very different plants." ( Bot. Reg., Sept. 1 . 

 1838, p. 49.) 



Volygonacece. 



+ Volygonum amplexicaide Don Prod. Fl. Nep., 70. " This 

 charming herbaceous plant, inhabiting the mountains in the 

 north of India, with long graceful racemes of the most brilliant 

 ruby-coloured flowers, has lately made its appearance among 

 some plants obtained from seeds sent from India by Dr. Hugh 

 Falconer, of the Botanic Garden, Saharunpur." (B. M. R., Sept., 

 No. 117.) 



-f- Ampel{/g07ium chinense Lindl. " This plant has lately flow- 

 ered in the garden of the Horticultural Society, where it has 

 been raised from seed received from Dr. Falconer of Saharun- 

 pur. It forms a spreading herbaceous plant, from IJft. to 2 ft. 

 high, with ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, stalked leaves, coarsely 

 bearded along the midrib on the under side, and with small 

 heads of yellowish-white fleshy flowers, which are succeeded by 

 a black succulent fruit." {B. M. R., Sept., No. 118.) 



Tki/melacea. 



+ Pijnelea crinlta Lindl. A pretty species of the genus, with 

 snow-white flowers, smelling slightly of heliotrope. It forms a 

 small shaggy green-house bush, and is a native of Swan River. 

 {B. M. R., Sept., No. 109.) 



