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texture ; it originally had four pairs of leaflets, and the usual terminal one ; the lower pair has dropped off. The other 

 lateral leaflets are sessile, slightly cordate, about three and a half inches long, with from three to four strong spiny 

 teeth on each side, and a very stiff triangular point ; the terminal leaflet is five inches long, and very deeply cordated, 

 with five coarse, spiny teeth on each side. This is certainly the finest of the genus."— Journ. Hort. Soc, vol. v., p. 20. 



Eondeletia Backhousii. This plant, we understand, was sent to Kew by Messrs. 

 Backhouse, of York, who have been the means of introducing so many subjects worthy 

 of cultivation to this country. It is from tropical America. 



"A small stove shrub, glabrous in all its parts, except the pedicels, calyx, and corolla tube, which are minutely 

 pubescent. Stems and branches slender, terete, green ; leaves opposite, shortly petioled, four to nine inches long, 

 ovate, subacute, membranaceous, green, with red petiole and veins beneath. Stipules triangular, subulate, adpressed, 

 persistent. Panicle terminal, erect, many -flowered, trichotomously branched. Flowers pedicelled, half to three quarters 

 of an inch long, rose-coloured. Calyx tube nearly globose. Corolla tube slender, twice or thrice as long as the calyx 

 lobes, pubescent. Limb one-third of an inch diameter, lobes rounded, throat glabrous. Stamens small, inserted in the 

 middle of the tube. Style very short. Stigmatic-lobes linear. " — Botanical Magazine, 6290. 



Mirabilis Mtjltiflora. A very beautiful half-hardy plant, of herbaceous character, 

 from California ; raised by Mr. Thompson, of Ipswich. 



" A tall, stout, much-branched herb, clothed everywhere with a glandular pubescence, which varies much in 

 quantity. Branches obscurely quadrangular, divaricating ; tumid at the nodes. Leaves three to four inches long, 

 opposite petioled, ovate, orbicular-ovate, or ovate-cordate, acute, or acuminate, rarely obtuse ; sometimes two-lobed 

 at the base, rather thick, quite entire ; nerves spreading ; petiole stout. Flowers in terminal panicles, with opposite 

 branches, four to seven together, in a green cup-shaped or bell-shaped peduncled involucre, which is about one foot 

 long, and has four or five short, acute, or obtuse, erect lobes. Perianth bright purple ; tube two inches long, funnel- 

 shaped ; limb flat, five-lobed ; lobes rounded, notched at the lip. Stamens five to six, hardly exserted. Anthers 

 small, yellow. Style long and slender. "—Botanical Magazine, 6266. 



Anthtjeitjm Veitcb.it, This magnificent plant was received by Messrs. Veitch 

 from Mr. Wallis, who sent it from Columbia. It is alike singular in structure and 

 effective in appearance — probably more so than any of the handsome-leaved aroids that 

 have preceded it, which is saying much, when it is remembered that we already possess 

 such plants as Alocasia Lowii, A. Veitchii, and others. It is a subject that will no doubt 

 be generally cultivated when sufficiently plentiful. 



"Leaf -stalks two to three feet long, cylindrical ; blade of leaves two feet in length, leathery, bright green above, 

 pale beneath, ovate-oblong, acute cordate at the base ; midrib thicker near the base, where it is rounded on the upper 

 surface, near the apex depressed ; secondary nerves arched, depressed on upper surface, prominent on lower ; near the 

 edge they anastomose together, forming an intra-marginal vein. Spathe spreading, oblong, white, many-nerved. 

 Spadix two to two and a half inches long, cylindric, obtuse, pinkish-white, covered with whitish flowers." — Gardener's 

 Chronicle, N.S., vol. vi., p. 772. 



Mertensia Sibikica. G. Bon, Altai Mountains. A hardy perennial. Flowers 

 blue. Obtained from Siberia by Mr. Van Houtte, of Ghent. Natural order, Borageworts. 



"The glaucous leaves and beautiful blue flowers appear with the earliest spring. Easily multiplied by division of 

 the roots." — Van Houtte 's Flora, v. 518, c. Apparently a pretty rock-plant. 



AntECTOCHIlus Lobbiantjs. Plane lion. A terrestrial Orchid figured in Tan Houtte's 

 Flora, v. t. 519 ; appears to be in no respect different from Aiiosclocliiliis Roxburghii. 



Berberis "Wallichiana. Be Candolle [alias B. macrophylla of the Gardens; 

 alias B. atrovirens, G. Bon). A hardy evergreen bush from the mountains of tropical 

 Asia. Imported by Messrs. Veitch. 



"An evergreen of most beautiful aspect, with brown branches, a very dark green dense foliage, and long, slender, 

 three-parted spines. The leaves grow in clusters, are about three or four inches long, with a sharp, prickly point, 

 and numerous fine serratures, ending in a straight point on each side ; on the upper side they are a rich bright green, 



