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represent it as completely covered with flowers, when it must indeed have a most 

 showy and beautiful appearance. As it is now beginning to mature its fruit, it 

 may be considered that the plant will bear blossoms in greater abundance in a 

 future season. 



Dr. Roxburgh describes this plant as being a very delicate species ; it has 

 scarcely anything, he says, that deserves the name of stem, but its many slender 

 branchlets and branches climb and spread in every direction to an extent of many 

 fathoms, running over high trees. 



It succeeds best in a house where the temperature is something below that of 

 a damp stove. The soil in which it is potted should be fresh and rich, and 

 composed of a mixture of loam, peat, and decayed manure ; it should be planted 

 out in the border, where convenient, or, if otherwise, should be allowed plenty of 

 pot-room. It may be propagated by layers and cuttings. Bot. Reg. 



Chorozema varium. Lindl. Various-leaved Chorozema. Bot. Reg. t. 49. 

 This is another and a beautiful addition to our knowledge of the Flora of the Swan 

 River. It was introduced by Mr. Smart, in the year 1837, and seeds were pre- 

 sented by him to the Horticultural Society, in whose garden it was raised, Two 

 or three varieties were produced, one of which was almost destitute of the spiny 

 toothing, but not different in any other respect. It has only been observed in 

 Mr. Drummond's collections from that country, and even in that herbarium occurs 

 only in small fragments, with pods adhering to them. It may therefore be con- 

 sidered a plant of great rarity. 



Mr. Fortune, to whose care its management was intrusted in the garden of the 

 London Horticultural Society, has furnished Dr. Lindley with the following 

 observations on its culture : — He states, " that in the autumn of 1837, the seed of 

 this beautiful plant was sown in light soil, and placed in a frame nearly exhausted. 

 It soon vegetated, and was potted in fresh soil, composed of about one-third of 

 loam and sand, and two-thirds of peat. It was afterwards placed in a cool pit, 

 and regularly shifted into a larger pot, as it seemed to require it. Under this 

 treatment it grew freely, and was covered with its beautiful flowers for several 

 months in the early part of the present year. 



The only essential point in its cultivation is, that it must always have plenty of 

 air, and not too much water, otherwise it is apt to damp off at its neck soon after 

 flowering. It is easily propagated by cuttings. Bot. Reg. 



Zichya tricolor. Lindl. Three-coloured Zichya. Bot. Reg. t. 52. This is 

 a handsome climbing shrub, having the appearance of the Kennedyas, from which 

 it has been separated by Baron Hiigel. From its graceful twining habit, it is 

 very well adapted for the ornamental greenhouse. The drawing was made from 

 a plant sent to Dr. Lindley by Mr. Young, of the Milford Nursery. There are 

 only seven species, all of which are natives of the Swan River. It may be increased 

 by seeds or cuttings in the usual way. This species requires to be in a cold pit or 

 greenhouse during the winter } where the temperature is kept just above freezing, 



