By Mr. John Lindley. 



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June, and will succeed in a conservatory, but not in situa- 

 tions where it is subject to the influence of a low tempera- 

 ture. Introduced for the Society from China in 1822, by 

 Mr. John Potts. It has since been received among the plants 

 collected in the same country by Mr. John Damper Parks, 

 who was sent to China by the Society, for the purpose of 

 procuring new plants, in 1823, and returned in 1824. 



III. Callicarpa rubella. Lindley. 



Stem from a foot to a foot and half high, densely covered 

 with a dull green down. The leaves are sessile, obovate, 

 acuminate, cordate, rugose, crenate beyond their middle, 

 hairy on both sides, and of a pale green colour. The flowers 

 are of a delicate pink, and appear in dichotomous corymbose 

 cymes which are shorter than the leaves. This is a very dis- 

 tinct species of Callicarpa, introduced from China for the 

 Society in 1822, by Mr. John Potts. It is figured in the 

 Botanical Register, tab. 883, from a drawing made in the 

 Garden of the Society. The figure in that work represents 

 the leaves to be regularly crenated along their whole length, 

 while in fact the crenatures do not commence before the 

 middle of the leaf; in other respects the figure is sufficiently 

 faithful. A green-house shrub easily propagated from cut- 

 tings. It flowers in July, 



IV. Callicarpa longifolia. Lamarck. 



This species was sent from China to the Society, in 1822, 

 by the industrious collector from whom the three previous 

 articles of this Report were received, and by the above named 

 Mr. Parks in 1824. It is an inelegant shrub, rising to the 



