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XXIV. Report upon the New or Rare Plants which have 

 flowered in the Garden of the Horticultural Society at 

 Chiswick, from March 1824, to March 1825. By Mr. 

 John Lindley, F. L. S., $c. Assistant Secretary for the 

 Garden. 



Read January 3, 1826. 



The following Report embraces an account of such plants as 

 flowered in the Garden of the Horticultural Society, between 

 the month of March in the year 1824, and the end of the 

 same month in 1825. It may be considered a continuation of 

 the Report made in 1824, and subsequently printed in this 

 volume of the Transactions.* 



The arrangement of the subjects there adopted not ap- 

 pearing to require alteration, it is still adhered to. 



TENDER PLANTS. 

 Trees or Shrubs. 

 I. Diospyrus vaccinioides. Lindley. 

 This is a small branching shrub, with numerous small ovate 

 silky leaves, in their young state of a light green colour. The 

 flowers appear singly from the axilla? of the leaves, they are 

 small, downy, cylindrical, four-cleft, greenish-white tinged 

 with pink ; the calyx is hirsute and edged with red. The 

 stamens are four but abortive. The ovary is ovate, three- 



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