By Mr. John Lindley. 



white centre, very handsome, and continuing to expand in the 

 utmost profusion during all the summer months. With much 

 of the habit of the common Nolana prostrata, this is a far 

 more beautiful plant. It is figured froma plant in the Garden 

 of the Society, in the Botanical Register, tab. 865. The 

 Nolana paradoxa of the Botanical Magazine, tab. 2604, is 

 another and very different species, 



LI. Sambucus Chinensis. 

 Plants of a species of Elder were imported by the Society 

 in 1822, from China, among the earth in which other things 

 had been placed. From that time up to the present period, 

 they have remained exposed to the weather without protec- 

 tion, and without injury. In September last, they produced 

 their flowers for the first time. The species is a rank, weedy, 

 herbaceous plant, in a favourable situation forming a bush 

 five or six feet high, with the aspect of Sambucus Ebulus. 

 The branches are round, pale green, with rough, dark green 

 furrows. The leaves are pinnated of three or four pairs, and 

 an odd one; leaflets oblong, lanceolate, concave, serrated, 

 very dark green above. The flowers are in terminal cymes, 

 and of two sexes. The males are white and numerous, with 

 brownish purple anthers, the females fewer in number, and 

 mixed irregularly among the males ; they are destitute of 

 either calyx or corolla, and consist of a large cyathiform, 

 fleshy discus,- in the centre of which the style is immersed. 

 Fruit has not been produced in this country. Propagated 

 by pieces of the roots, which over-run the border, and require 

 to be annually reduced. The species may be thus cha- 

 racterized. 



