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NEW PLANTS, ETC. 



scented. Calyx three times as short as the corolla. Corolla 

 urceolate, with a revolute 5-cleft border, not more than a quarter 

 as long as the tube. Anthers without any tails, but simply 

 sagittate. 



According to Cunningham, this plant is common in the north- 

 ern island of New Zealand, at Hokianga and Wangaroa, in shady 

 woods. M. Raoul, whose P. albiflora can scarcely be different, 

 found it on the outskirts of woods at Akaroa. It is rather a nice 

 addition to our greenhouse climbers, and will probably prove 

 hardy in the south of England. For purposes of cultivation it 

 is much superior to P. variabilis. 



26. Parsonsia variabilis.* 



Received from J. R. Gowen, Esq., from New Zealand, in 

 1847. 



A small twining greenhouse plant, very much like P. hetero- 

 phylla, from which it differs in its leaves being shining and much 

 more variable in form, the linear ones being far narrower, and 

 often expanded at the very end into a circular blade. The 

 flowers are not more than half the size, and instead of being con- 

 tracted at the mouth or urceolate, are exactly campanulate ; they 

 are also far less hairy, by no means so numerous or densely 

 arranged, and usually intermingled with long narrow leaves. 



It is a very curious thing, but possesses little claim to beauty. 

 Its flowers are, however, much sweeter than in P. heterophylla. 



27. Dodecatheon in tegri folium. Michaux, Flora Boreali- 

 Americana, i. 123. Bot. Mag., t. 3622. 



Raised from Californian seed sent home by Hartweg. 



A dwarf stemless plant, with a few long narrow, almost spa- 

 thulate, undivided leaves, and a slender scape, bearing a single 

 nodding flower, very like that of the common species, and of 

 the same purple colour, with a yellow eye and dark purple 

 anthers. 



Such was the plant from which the annexed drawing was 

 made. Upon looking, however, to the wild specimens, we find 

 that it becomes much more vigorous when older, bearing as many 

 as three flowers on a scape, or, according to Sir Win. Hooker, 



* P. variabilis ; caule volubili pubescente, foliis nitidis acutissimis nunc 

 lmearibus angustissimis basi rotundatis subundulatis, nunc ovalibus utrin- 

 que acutissimis, nunc obovatis, nunc linearibus apice dilatatis circularibus, 

 paniculis brevibus raris secundis subfoliosis, sepalis corolla triplo breviori- 

 bus, corolla campanulata (nec urceolata ut in P. heterophylla) limbo revo- 

 luto tubo quadruplo breviore, antheris ecaudatis. 



