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the axillae of the leaves, and are of a whitish-yellow colour. 

 The perianthium is villous and six-leaved ; the stamens seven, 

 with 2-celled anthers. It therefore is not a species of Tetran- 

 thera, as has been conjectured, although Loureiro's Laurus 

 Myrrha, to which this species is related, appears, from Mr. 

 Brown's observations, to be referable to that genus. It has 

 been frequently imported from China by the Society, and is, 

 I believe, a common plant upon the hills about Macao. It 

 should be grown in three parts of strong turf-loam, and one 

 of peat mould. A figure of the male plant, from a specimen 

 in the Society's Garden, is in the Botanical Magazine, 

 tab. 2497. 



V. Guatteria rufa. Dunal. 

 Sent from the Botanic Garden, Calcutta, by Mr. John 

 Potts, a most meritorious collector, who unfortunately died 

 in the service of the Society, after returning from Bengal and 

 China, in 1822. In the stove it is a low plant with rusty 

 branches and oblong cordate leaves, covered with coarse pu- 

 bescence underneath. The flowers are solitary, of a dull cho- 

 colate colour, produced but sparingly, but remaining open for 

 many days. The plant is propagated with difficulty, and 

 does not grow with much vigour. It has been figured in the 

 Botanical Cabinet, tab. 612, from a plant communicated by 

 the Society to Messrs. Loddiges, and in the Botanical Re- 

 gister, tab. 836. 



VI. Berberis fascicularis. Sims. 

 Berberis pinnata. Ker. 

 Mahonia fascicularis. De Candolle. 

 A fine plant of this very rare Berberis was presented to the 



