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28. HOLLBOLLIA ACUMINATA.* 



Raised from Nepal seeds received from the Honourable the 

 East India Company, at various times. 



This is an evergreen twining plant, with quite the habit of 

 HollbOllia latifolia (Bot. Register, 1846, t. 49), from which it 

 differs in having very taper pointed, not blunt, leaflets, racemes 

 whose stalks are much shorter than the leaf-stalks, and purplish 

 flowers not half the size ; like that plant, it is deliciously fra- 

 grant. Hitherto male flowers only have been produced. 



It has been treated as a greenhouse climbing plant, but it is 

 probably hardy ; it grows freely in a mixture of sandy loam and 

 rough peat, and is increased by cuttings. Its sweet-scented 

 flowers, resembling the orange in perfume, and nearly evergreen 

 foliage, make it a very desirable plant either in the greenhouse 

 or open air. 



March 30, 1847. 



29. Begonia biserrata.| 



Received from G. U. Skinner, Esq., in April, 1847, and said 

 to be from Guatemala. 



A herbaceous plant, 2 feet or more in height, covered all over 

 with a short harsh pubescence. The root is fibrous, and dis- 

 posed to produce suckers from its crown. The stem is terete and 

 dull purple. The leaves are palmate, doubly serrate, so oblique 

 that there are frequently but four lobes instead of five, with the 

 base triangular and not bordered by parenchyma. The flowers, 

 which are pale pink, grow on stalks rather longer than the petioles, 

 three or more in a cluster, in the upper axils or at the end of the 

 branches. The males have two roundish, ovate, hairy, doubly 

 serrate sepals, and a pair of very small smooth wedge-shaped 

 petals toothed only at the point. The fruit is formed unwillingly, 

 so that I have no means of describing its mature form. 



It is a stove herbaceous species, which grows freely in a mix- 

 ture of loam, sandy peat, and leaf-mould, in equal proportions. 

 When done growing, it should have two or three months' rest by 

 withholding moisture from the roots. It is easily increased by 



* H. acuminata ; foliolisternatis quinatisque coriaceis oblocgo-lanceolatis 

 acuminatis, pedunculis petiolis breyioribus, sepalis acutissimis. — J. L. 



t B. (Diplocliuium) biserrata ; erecta, perennis, undique scabrido-pubescens, 

 radice fibrosa, caule stricto, foliis palmatis trilobisque biservatis baseos sinu 

 aperto triangulari, pedunculis terminalibus axillaribusque petiolis longicri- 

 bus, sepalis 2 subrotundc-ovatis biserratis, petalis 2 multo minoribus subcu- 

 neatis dentatis glabris, fructu villoso fere isoptero, alis ? — J. L. 



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