A Report upon New and Rare Plants, #c. 63 



It is intended that a Report similar to this shall be made 

 annually, to embrace all descriptions of plants, either hardy 

 or otherwise, which may, during the year, appear to deserve 

 notice. This, the First Report, is necessarily confined in 

 a great degree to plants requiring some kind of artificial 

 protection, the part of the Garden destined to the reception 

 of hardy plants having only been commenced within a few 

 months. The interest which would attach to the present 

 communication is necessarily diminished by the previous 

 description of the greater part of the plants in monthly 

 Botanical publications, to which every remarkable subject is 

 communicated as soon as it arrives at a state fit for descrip- 

 tion ; it being the wish of the Council of the Society that the 

 public should be made acquainted with all objects of interest 

 with as little delay as possible. I nevertheless entertain a 

 hope, that even under such unfavourable circumstances, some 

 observations may be found which may be deserving at- 

 tention. 



In arranging the following notices, no other method has 

 been followed than placing near each other plants of similar 

 habits and character, dividing them generally into Tender and 

 Hardy plants, and more particularly into such as are Shrubby, 

 Herbaceous, Bulbous, or otherwise. 



TENDER PLANTS. 

 Trees or Shrubs. 

 I. Calceolaria rugosa. Ruiz and Paton. 

 C. crenata. Bot. Reg. 790, not of others. 

 II. Calceolaria integrifolia. Ruiz and Pavon. 

 Both these newly introduced species flowered last year in 



