316 NEW PLANTS, ETC., FROM THE SOCIETY'S GARDEN. 



A dioecious scrambling shrub, of which the male only has 

 flowered. It has much the appearance of CI. virginiana, but its 

 leaves are pinnated. The leaflets are ovate, slightly cordate, 

 acuminate, with a few coarse serratures at the side. The flowers 

 are small, downy, pale green, and produced in axillary and ter- 

 minal slender downy panicled corymbs. They have no beauty ; 

 nor is the plant of much moment to gardens. 



It proves to be a hardy climbing plant, flowering freely in 

 August and September, and suited for covering trellis-work. 

 It grows vigorously in loam, and multiplies abundantly by 

 cuttings. Aug. 25, 1847. 



33. Rosa anemoneflora. Fortune* 



Found in the gardens of Shanghai. 



As far as any opinion can be formed respecting the species of 

 Rose, this would seem to be really a new form, approaching R. 

 moschata in its habit and united styles, but distinct in its narrow 

 acuminated leaflets, usually three, and in its hairless calyx. The 

 flowers are small and clustered as in R. moschata, and, in the plants 

 brought to Europe, have small rounded petals, forming a kind of 

 cup to an infinite number of narrow, ragged, confused bodies, 

 which result from the deformation of the stamens. Their colour 

 is pale blush, and they have little beauty, but the plant may prove 

 useful as a breeder if any perfect stamens or pistils are ever pro- 

 duced by it. July 1, 1847. 



34. Navarretia squarrosa. Hook, and Arn., Botany of 

 Beecheifs Voyage, p. 368. Be Cand. Prodr. 9, 310. 

 Gilia pungens. Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 2977. 



Raised from seed, collected by Mr. Hartweg in fields near 

 Santa Cruz, and received at the Garden May 11, 1847. 



This plant bears a considerable general resemblance to Trip- 

 tilion spinosum, but the flowers are less intensely blue. It is 

 covered all over with hairs, which secrete a viscid matter which 

 emits a most unpleasant foxy odour. The leaves are spiny, dark 

 green, and cut up into many sharp segments. The flowers ap- 

 pear among bracts and calyx-lobes in close spiny heads. 



It is a hardy annual, growing freely in any good garden soil, 

 and flowering in August and September. 



Aug. 27, 1847. 



* R. anemoneflora ; (systyla) glabra, scandens, ramulis parce setigeris et 

 glandulosis, foliis 3-natis (raro pinnatis), foliolis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis 

 argute serratis subtus glaucis petiolis aculeolatis, stipulis angustissimis inte- 

 gris margine subglandulosis apice liberis subulatis, tubo calycis sepalisque 

 subintegris glaberrimis. — J. L. 



