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height of three or four feet, and covered all over, except on 

 the upper side of the old leaves, with a mealy stellated 

 pubescence. Leaves long, lanceolate, narrowed at each end, 

 serrated beyond the middle ; flowers in small axillary cymes, 

 which are as long as, or longer than, the leaf-stalks, of a deli- 

 cate pink colour, with yellow prominent anthers. A hardy 

 green-house plant, flowering at the same time as the last spe- 

 cies, and readily increased by cuttings. It is not, however, 

 deserving a place in any collection except such as is bota- 

 nical. Figures of it are in Dr. Hooker's Exotic Flora, 

 tab. 133, and in the Botanical Register, tab. 864. 



V. Quisqualis Indica. Linnaeus. 

 Trained to the wires of an iron curvilinear stove, so that 

 its stem and leaves were as near as possible to the light, this 

 plant flowered in unceasing beauty and profusion through 

 the whole summer. From the end of March to the middle of 

 October, the house was perfumed with its delicious fragrance 

 and enlivened by the varying hues of its bunches of change- 

 able orange and ruby-coloured flowers. The plant is easily 

 propagated and cultivated, but requires the constant heat of 

 a good stove, and a free exposure to light. Figures of this 

 plant may be found in the Botanical Register, tab. 492, and 

 in the Botanical Magazine, tab. 2033. 



VI. Nauclea Adina. Smith. 



Adina globiflora. Salisbury 

 This was sent to the Society from China in 1822, by Mr. 

 John Potts. It is a small neat looking bush, with lanceolate 

 acuminate stiffish glabrous leaves, with two sharp deciduous 



