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many stems, narrow grass-like leaves, and a succession of 

 bright blue blossoms. It was raised at the Garden from 



seeds received from China in 1821. A figure of it is in the 



Botanical Register, tab. 659. 



XXV. Primula Sinensis. Lindley. 

 To this plant, one of the finest ornaments of the green- 

 house, attention was first attracted by a drawing sent by J ohn 

 Reeves, Esq. from China, to the Society, in consequence of 

 which it was introduced three years ago, by Captain Richard 

 Rawes, and presented by him to his relative, Thomas 

 Carey Palmer, Esq. of Bromley, in Kent. It was for some 

 time very scarce, but it is now become more common from 

 the liberal distribution which has been made by the Society of 

 plants obtained from seeds brought from China by Mr. Potts. 

 It is probable that it will soon be plentiful in every collec- 

 tion ; for though scarcely more than biennial, and not readily 

 propagated by cuttings, yet it produces seed in great abun- 

 dance. 



It has never been seen in this country in the luxuriant 

 state in which it is represented in the Chinese drawings, but 

 two varieties have been noticed, one, the state in which it 

 produces fringed petals, and the other in which it produces 

 plain petals. The former is figured in the Collectanea Bo- 

 tanica, tab. 7, being that which is represented in the Chinese 

 drawing above mentioned; the latter has since been published 

 by Dr. Hooker, in his Exotic Flora, tab. 105. 



XXVI. Limnocharis Plumieri. Richard. 

 A fine aquatic. It was raised from seed received in 1823, 

 from Maranham, where it was collected in the preceding year 



