so 



NEW PLANTS, ETC , 



The seeds are about 12 in each capsule, angular, and minutely 

 hispid. 



There can be little doubt that this is what the North American 

 botanists call H. scoparium, although the petals are not evidently 

 cuneate, nor the seeds six in number and smooth. This garden- 

 plant does not appear to differ from a small Californian specimen 

 out of the late Dr. Coulter's herbarium, for which I am indebted 

 to Dr. Harvey. Mr. Bentham also considers Hartweg's plant to 

 belong to this species. 



A hardy little shrub, growing freely in a mixture of sandy 

 loam and peat soil, requiring the same kind of treatment as Cis- 

 tuses, and easily increased by seed, which is produced by the 

 plant very freely. 



It is a very nice dwarf plant for rock-work, on which it 

 thrives in the full glare of the sun. For no other place is it 

 suitable. 



Sept. 18, 1849, 



3. Ceeisostoma fuscum.* 



Received from the East India Company in 1846. 



Leaves distichous, leathery, about 9 inches long by If broad, 

 with a rounded emarginate end ; flowers of a dull, dingy, yel- 

 lowish brown colour, much like those of C. latifolium ; in a 

 close panicle, on a long, dusky peduncle, fleshy and numerous. 

 Sepals and petals oblong, spreading, very obtuse ; lip yellow, 

 with a blunt sac ; its front division ovate and flat, the side ones 

 shorter, rounded, and erect. Inside the sac in front is a large 

 fleshy callus, which projects into the cavity ; the dorsal tooth 

 is like that of C. latifolium, except that it is shorter and trun- 

 cate, not bifid. Perhaps it ought to be regarded as a mere 

 variety of it. 



Nov. 3, 1849. 



4. Hoya imperialis. Lindley, in Botanical Register , 1846, 

 under plate 68. 



Presented to the Society by Messrs. Yeitch and Son, of 

 Exeter, in 1848. 



There are two varieties in cultivation of this noble plant : one 

 with long, flat, sharp-pointed leaves, figured in the Botanical 



* C. fuscum : foliis oblongis distichis canaliculars apice rotundatis emar- 

 ginatis pedunculo elongate- multo brevioribus, panicula parra contracta 

 bracbiis basi nudis, floribus congestis subcorymbosis, sepalis petalisque 

 oblongis obtusis, labelli 3-lobi laciniis lateralibus erectis rotundatis inter- 

 media ovata acuta lsevi : calcare intus antice carnoso gibboso dente dorsali 

 piano erecto truncato eroso. — J. L. An C. latifolii varietas. 



