GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 



Veronica caunosula. A shrubby Speedwell from New Zealand, bearing compact 

 terminal heads of white flowers very distinct in appearance. It possesses a branching 

 habit, and blooms out in the open air in summer, but is not quite hardy. 



A small robust much-branched erect or decumbent whitish shrub, glabrous or nearly so ; branches scarred by the 

 fall of the old leaves. Leaves spreading and imbricate, one-fourth to one-half of an inch long, sessile, elliptic or 

 obovate, obtuse, quite entire, concave, very thickly leathery, without midrib or nerves on either surface. Spikes 

 subglobose, axillary, peduncled, three-fourths of an incllin diameter; peduncle stout, longer or shorter than the leaves. 

 Flowers white, sessile, one-third of an inch in diameter ; bracts coriaceous, oblong, about as long as the oblong calyx 

 segments ; both puberulous. Corolla-tube very short ; lobes spreading, two lateral and anticous rounded obtuse, 

 posticous oblong rounded at the tip. Anthers reddish-yellow. Capsule (in dried specimen) ovoid, acute, glabrous. — 

 Botanical Magazine, 6587. 



Aeistolochta altissima. Of all climbing plants, there are none which bear more 

 singular flowers than the Aristolochias, as witness the tender species A. gigas and 

 A. omithocephala, which unfortunately require the temperature of a hothouse continuously. 

 The subject of our notice is much smaller in all its parts than the two preceding species, 

 but nevertheless deserving of being grown from its being sufficiently hardy to live through 

 our winters out of doors, with the roots protected with a mulching of dry material, although 

 the tops are killed down by severe frost. It appears to be indigenous to both Algeria 

 and Sicily. The flowers are pale dull yellow, striped with reddish-brown. The habit of 

 the plant is elegant, and altogether it is an acceptable addition to our out-door climbers. 

 Ordinary well-drained soil, in a warm sunny position, will answer for it. 



A glabrous slender twiner, growing eight feet high, copiously leafy. Stem woody below, branches six-angled. 

 Leaves petioled, two to three inches long, ovate-cordate obtuse or acute, wared, thinly rigid, bright glossy green, basal 

 lobes rounded, sinus broad or narrow, nerves five to seven strong beneath, both surfaces finely reticulated ; petiole 

 one-half to three-quarters of an inch long. Flowers on slender pedicels, about half as long as the leaves. Ovary 

 club-shaped, pubescent, six-ribbed. Perianth about one and a half inches long, curved almost in a semi-circle, pale 

 yellow-brown, striped with dark red-brown ; utricular base of the perianth globose, tube gradually enlarged from the 

 base to the elongate ovate oblique limb, which is obtuse and yellow within, margins recurved. Crown of stigma very 

 short, of six small broadly ovate lobes, beneath which is a ring of small sessile anthers. — Botanical Magazine, 6586. 



Bhododendiion myrtifolium. Schott. A hardy evergreen shrub from the Alps of 

 Southern Transylvania. Flowers red. Cultivated in the Garden of Schonbrunn. 



This bush has been mistaken, according to Schott, for an Alpine form of Rhododendron ferrugineum. It is described 

 thus : — Leaves minute, ovate or obovate elliptical, obtuse, rolled back at the edge and slightly crenelled, with a small 

 point at the end ; smooth, wrinkled, and dark green on the upper side, covered with a coarse shaggy wool on the 

 under. Flowers in short racemes, about five together, with their stalks covered by a coarse scurf. Teeth of the calyx 

 very short. Corolla funnel-shaped, the tube hairy outside, with some scattered scurf, the segments rounded, elliptical, 

 smooth on each side near the rim, the throat shaggy, filaments hairy at the base, otherwise smooth. Style rather 

 shorter than the ovary. Capsules lifted upon the lengthened peduncles above the leaves, and crowned by a short style. 

 — Botanischc Zcitung, 1851, 17. 



