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NEW PLANTS, ETC., FROM THE SOCIETY'S 

 GARDEN. 



22. Audibertia polystachya. Bentham, Labiates, p. 414. 

 Raised from Californian seeds collected by Hartweg. 



A white, sage-like, herbaceous plant, growing about 2 feet 

 high. Leaves on long stalks, oblong, blunt, crenate, having a 

 strong and by no means agreeable odour, proceeding apparently 

 from numerous point-like dark brown glittering glands, with 

 which they are covered, especially on the under side. Stem 

 erect, producing a great number of white labiate flowers, on 

 short, lateral, one-sided racemes. Stamens long and prominent. 



This seems to be unable to bear an English winter without 

 protection ; for it has perished among rockwork in that of 1 849- 

 50. The flowers have no beauty ; but the snow-white leaves 

 and stems produce an appearance sufficiently remarkable to give 

 it a claim to cultivation where the climate agrees with it. 



Oct. 10, 1849. 



23. Arbutus xalapensis. Humboldt, Bo?ipla?id ) and Kunth, 

 Nov. Gen. et Sp. Plant., iii. 281. Bentham, Plant. Hartweg., 

 No. 485. 



Eaised from Mexican seed, received from Hartweg in 

 February, 1846, from the mountain of Anganguco. 



A low, dull brownish green evergreen bush. Branches, 

 petioles, and underside of leaves covered with a short soft down, 

 without any trace of setae. Leaves oblong, flat, long-stalked, 

 rounded at the base, perfectly entire, or very slightly serrate, 

 with a hard, firm, reddish edge ; somewhat downy on the upper 

 side. Flowers dirty reddish-white, in close downy terminal 

 short pyramidal panicles. Peduncles glandular and woolly. 

 Calyx nearly smooth. Corolla ovate, at the base almost flat and 

 unequally gibbous, with a contraction below the middle, and a 

 very small limb. Ovary with a granular surface. 



This little bush is by no means ornamental. It grows slowly, 

 requires protection in winter, has dull spotted leaves, and re- 

 mains in flower only for a week or two in April. Although a. 



