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P ANTON'S FLOWER GARDEN. 



Ltlium s ini cum. A handsome Chinese greenhouse bulbous plant, with scarlet flowers. 

 Blossoms in July. Re-introduced by Messrs. Standish and Noble, (Fig. 182.) 



L. sinicum ; caule humili apice bi-Lrifloro subtomentoso, foliis' sparsis oblongo-liaearibus vix pubescentibus supremis 

 sub floribus verticiilatis, pedunculis nunc supra medium monophyllis, perianthii laciniis revolutis sessilibus intus hevibus 

 circa rimam pubescentibus, staminibus periantliio brevioribus pistillo longioribus, ovario obovato obtusissimo styli longi- 

 tudine. 



This plant was originally imported from China by the Horticultural Society, in whose garden it flowered in September, 

 1824. Since then Messrs. Standish and Noble obtained it from Mr. Fortune. It is a very dwarf kind, hardly exceeding 



a foot in height, with small deep scarlet 

 The stem is covered with short down. The 

 over the stem, except the uppermost which 

 stalks usually bear a very narrow leaf above 

 flower, but the nectariferous channels at the 

 It differs from L. pumilum in its broader 

 its smaller flowers without papillse, and in 

 It may, however, be a small variety of that 



Deutzia staminea. Wallicli. 

 flowers, from the Himalayas. Belongs to 



flowers, not above an inch and a half long, 

 leaves are almost entirely smooth, and scattered 

 are whorled beneath about three flowers, whose 

 the middle. There are no papillee inside the 

 base of the lobes are bordered by short hairs, 

 leaves and downy stems ; from L. concolor in 

 the leaves not being fringed by shaggy hairs, 

 species. 



A hardy deciduous shrub, with white 

 the Order of Syringas (Philadelphacea). 



It is stated by Dr. Wallich that this plant grows on the highest mountains of the great valley of Nepal, and in the 

 province of Kamaon. Dr. Royle speaks of it as being common in Mussooree, and apparently well suited to English 

 shrubberies. It is a small bush with deciduous ovate-lanceolate stalked leaves, firmly serrated, dull-green and smooth on 

 the upper side, whitish beneath. The flowers are pure white, somewhat larger than those of Hawthorn, in terminal 

 corymbose panicles. The calyx is small, white, with five small triangular teeth. The petals are oblong, and rather 

 crumpled. The stamens have large winged edges produced upwards into a strong tooth. The whole plant has a feeble 

 somewhat balsamic smell. It is a small hardy shrub, growing well in the common garden scil, and easily increased by 

 cuttings of the half-ripened slender young wood; is very pretty and flowers freely in May.— J own. of Hort. Soc, vol. i. 



Grevillea rosea (alias Gr. lavandulacea Henfrey.) 



Mr. Henfrey has referred this plant to the Gi\ lavandulacea of Schlechtendahl, described in the Lmnwa, vol. xx., 

 p. 586, from specimens collected in South Australia by Behr ; but if we are to trust the words "folia fere teretia" and 

 " fructus maturus extus lcevis et pubescens " he can hardly be right. We must however allow that the two plants are 

 very nearly alike, and that the supposed differences may be merely accidental. 



Trrz-RoYA patagonica. J. D. Hooker. A noble evergreen hardy Coniferous tree from 

 Patagonia. Introduced by Messrs. Yeitch and Co. 



By this name Dr. Hooker proposes to distinguish one of the most magnificent trees in Patagonia. When young, 



