By Mr. John Lindley. 



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with a sub-acid, extremely pleasant flavour. The grains were 

 few, large, and pointed. When in fruit it was one of the most 

 beautiful plants in the Garden ; it is however rather tender ; 

 the plant which bore fruit in the Arboretum was so much 

 injured by the winter of 1825 and 6, that it died soon after 

 the commencement of the succeeding spring. There is a 

 good figure of this plant in a flowering state in the Botanical 

 Register, fol. 496. 



It would probably succeed well upon rock work, in which 

 situation it may be expected to become capable of enduring 

 our coldest winters : from its extraordinary merit when in 

 fruit it well deserves careful cultivation. The flowers appear 

 in July, and the fruit in August. 



LIV. Podanthus Mitigui. 



P. foliis rhombeo-ovatis dentatis glandulosis, capitulis solitariis pedunculatis. 



Seeds of this plant were received from Mr. Place in 1823. 

 It has also been sent to the Society at other times, and 

 always under the name of Mitigui, by which it is known in 

 Chili, of which country it is a native. 



It forms a branched compact bush, about 3 feet in height. 

 The leaves are opposite, stalked, rough to the touch, and 

 covered beneath with a little down, and minute glandular 

 dots, of a rhomboid-ovate figure, tapering to the point, and 

 decurrent on the petiole ; they are either entire, or, which is 

 more usually the case, toothletted irregularly, of a dull, 

 deep olive green on their upper surface, but much paler 

 below. Heads of flowers hemispherical, solitary, seated on 

 slender downy peduncles. Involucrum spreading, very downy, 

 with about eleven leaflets, which are unequal both in length 



