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NEW PLANTS, ETC., 



an inch in length and angular, with rather broad wings one inch 

 in length. 



This pine, so very distinct from any other hitherto described, 

 particularly in its long incurved resinous cones, I have ventured 

 to name after the Marquis of Winchester, who first presented 

 the seeds of this noble pine to the Society, and to whom its first 

 introduction into England is due. 



8. Akebia quinata. Decaisne, Memoire sur les Lar- 

 dizabalees, p. 195. 



Received in 1845 from Mr. Fortune, as a " climbing shrub, 

 from the hedges of Chusan, with very sweet scented 

 flowers." 



A slender twining evergreen, with deep green digitate leaves, 

 and obovate or emarginate leaflets. Its flowers are of the 

 colour of the pink Clematis Viticella, and appear in racemes 

 from the centre of scaly buds ; each has 3 ovate sepals, and no 

 petals. They are of two kinds ; the females are much the 

 larger, grow singly, and are placed on longer stalks, and contain 

 6 linear spreading carpels, whose interior is covered with ovules ; 

 the remainder of each raceme consists of males, containing 6 

 sessile anthers. The flowers have no bracts, and scarcely de- 

 serve the name of sweet-scented ; they have, however, an agree- 

 able odour, although it partakes a little of the Berberry smell. 



A climber which grows very freely in a mixture of sandy 

 loam and peat, and increased by cuttings in the usual way. At 

 present it is kept in the greenhouse, but if it should prove hardy, 

 like so many of the Chusan plants, although it cannot be called 

 very ornamental, it will form a useful shrub, ranking in point 

 of appearance with Periploca greeca. 



March 4, 1847. 



