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underside, and furnished with a pair of glands on the edge near 

 the base. The flowers, which are golden yellow, appear in close 

 terminal racemes, between 3 and 4 inches long in strong plants. 

 Each has five distinct petals, with almost exactly the form of a 

 trowel. 



This slender stove plant grows freely in a mixture of loam 

 and sandy peat, and is easily increased by cuttings of the half- 

 ripened young shoots. It requires to be kept rather dry for a 

 few months, and afterwards, during the growing season, to be 

 freely supplied with moisture both to the roots and in the atmos- 

 phere. 



It is a very desirable species, as it flowers during the latter 

 part of the autumn. 



Sept. 10, 1848. 



15. Ternstromia sylvatioa. Chamisso and Schlechteu- 

 dahl, in Linncea. vol. v. p. 220. 



Raised from seeds brought home by Mr. Hartweg, probably 

 from Mexico. 



A small evergreen shrub, not unlike a Sweet Bay, but more 

 spreading. Leaves narrow, oblong, bluntly acuminate, deep 

 green on the upper, very pale on the under side, perfectly 

 smooth. The flowers grow singly on short curved stalks, and 

 are quite hidden among the leaves. They are of the pale, dull, 

 greenish purple of Magnolia fuscata, and quite destitute of 

 beauty. 



This plant corresponds with authentic specimens in my pos- 

 session gathered near Jalapa by Deppe and Schiede. Mr. Ben- 

 tham, who examined a flowering specimen produced in the 

 Apothecaries' Garden at Chelsea, remarks that " it is the 

 Ternstromia sylvatica of Chamisso and Schlechtendahl, which I 

 think — as they even suggest may be the case — is the same as 

 T. lineata, D. C, Mem. Ternstr., p. 17, t. 1 (in Mem. Soc. 

 Phys. Ge?i., 1823). De Candolle's figure ; s the copy of a rude 

 one of the Mexican Flora he so often quotes, and the stunted 

 habit and blunt anthers are probably artisticrfl imperfections. 

 He figures a red line across all the petals ; Chamisso and Schlech- 

 tendahl found it on none ; in the specimen you sent, it exists on 

 two out of the five petals." 



Mr. Thomas Moore, the only grower who has yet flowered 

 it, remarks that the blossoms, when fresh gathered, have a 

 very agreeable hawthorn-like scent. It is, however, a species 

 of no horticultural interest. Those who may wish to grow it 

 must keep it in a greenhouse. 



Feb. 24, 1850. 



