By Mr. John Lindley. 



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Society by Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Esq. and soon after 

 flowered in a stove. It is a tall slender plant, in its present 

 state producing scarcely any branches. The leaves are pin- 

 nated and prickly, and the flowers grow in axillary pendulous 

 bunches, succeeded by a few dark-purple, roundish-oblong 

 fruit. It has been figured in the Botanical Magazine, tab. 

 2396, under the name I have adopted, and in the Botanical 

 Register, tab. 702, under the name of B. pinnata. No trial 

 has yet been made of propagating the plant, which has been 

 planted in the Arboretum with every prospect of its succeed- 

 ing in the open air. 



VII. Hypericum Cochin-chinense. Loureiro. 

 This plant has been introduced by the Society, from 

 China, at several different times. It is a branching shrub, 

 with slender shoots, and smooth, elliptical, stalked leaves, 

 which are dotted on their under side. The flowers are 

 small, of a dull red colour, appearing in small terminal 

 racemes which have no bractea?. It is one of the doubtful 

 species of Hypericum, the station for which M. De Candolle 

 has been unable, in his recent Prodromus Regni Vegetabilis, 

 to ascertain. The very numerous stamens disposed in three 

 distinct bundles, with large intervening glands, decide its 

 affinity to those species of Hypericum which have been 

 placed in a distinct section by M. De Candolle, and by him 

 called Tridesmos. The plant is cultivated with difficulty in the 

 green-house. It is common upon the hills near Macao, where 

 it forms groves or thickets from ten to twelve feet high. 



