74 Report on New and Rare Plants, §c. 



quiring the heat of the stove, and is easily propagated by cut- 

 tings. The figure in the Botanical Register, tab. 798, was 

 taken from plants which had been raised from seeds only a 

 few months. As the plants become older they are less beau- 

 tiful, and should therefore be frequently renewed from young 

 cuttings, which strike root readily. 



XVI. Euonymus Chinensis. 



At several different times, this species of Euonymus has 

 been imported from China by the Society. Its leaves are 

 somewhat coriaceous, lanceolate, or obovate, bearing in the 

 axillae a few bunches of inconspicuous greenish flow ers, which 

 have not been succeeded by fruit in this country It is men- 

 tioned here, not as a plant remarkable for beauty, but as 

 being one which will probably be found to be quite hardy 

 It stood out last winter against a wall without injury, and it 

 is now planted in the Arboretum. It is most nearly related 

 to Euonymus vagans of Wallicii, from which, and also from 

 E. Japonicus of Thunberg, it differs in the outline of the 

 leaves, and in their not being so coriaceous and regularly ser- 

 rated, as in the latter species. Its specific character will be : 



E. Chinensis, foliis obovatis obsolete crenatis semperviren- 

 tibus, cymis axillaribus paucifloris. 



XVII. Clitoria arborea. R. Brown. 

 Plants of this fine species of Clitoria were received from the 

 Botanic Garden of St. Vincent's, from Mr. Geouge Caley. 

 It is a tall plant, bearing fine, large, ternate leaves, and 

 racemes of flowers of a delicate purple colour, passing into 

 white at the back of the vexillum. It has very little resem- 



