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winter, care must be taken to give no more water than is required to keep the soil moderately moist ; but in summer, water 

 may be given freely in the evening or early in the morning. It is important that the plants should be so placed that the 

 sun's rays do not strike the sides of the pot. The species here figured, being a native of the Swan River Colony, requires 

 to be treated as a greenhouse plant. It does not readily propagate by cuttings, but may be increased by grafting oil any 

 of the more common free-growing species. Imported seeds germinate freely." 



Veronica Formosa. Bentham. (alias V. dios-- . 

 msefolia, Knowles and Westcott.) A little half-hardy ever- 

 green bush from Van Diemen's Land. Flowers bright 

 blue. Belongs to the Linariads (Scrojohulariacea) . Very 

 pretty. A native of Mount Wellington ; and found to 

 stand the winter at Kew, planted against an east wall. 

 (Kg. 83.) 



It forms a shrub about 2 feet high, erect, much branched, with two 

 obscure lines of hairs between the leaves. Leaves rather crowded, 

 arranged somewhat in four rows, oblong, lanceolate, spreading, scarcely 

 stalked, single-nerved. Flowers in terminal racemes, not many of 

 which open at one time, though there is a succession of them. 

 Corolla bright and deep purplish blue, somewhat 2-lipped ; upper lip 

 of one broad oval lobe, lower of three narrower segments, the middle 

 one the smallest. This with a few others belongs to a section of 

 Veronica characterised as evergreen shrubs, having small closely-set 

 decussate leaves, and forming myrtle-like bushes. The old and well- 

 known Veronica decussata may be viewed as the type of the group. 

 They are natives of high southei-n latitudes; being found in Van 

 Diemen's Land, New Zealand, Falkland Islands, and Lord Auckland's 

 and Campbell's Islands, in latitude 53°.— Botanical Magazine, t. 4512. 



Hymenocallis maceostephana. A fine bulbous plant nearly allied to Pancratium 

 fragrans, and like it highly fragrant. Amongst those who have flowered it may be 

 named Mr. "Woodbridge, of Sion House Gardens, who exhibited a fine example at one 

 of the Royal Horticultural Society's meetings, where its merits were duly recognised. 

 Its pure white fragrant flowers cannot fail to make it a favourite. Its native country 

 is unknown. 



Bulb ovoid, two inches in diameter. Leaves eight or nine to a bulb, contemporary with the flowers, two or 

 three feet long, two or three inches broad, narrowed gradually to an inch. Scape much shorter than the leaves, 

 ancepitous, an inch in diameter ; umbel six to ten flowered ; pedicels very short ; outer spathe-valves deltoid, 

 inner lanceolate. Flowers pure white, sweet-scented; ovary oblong-trigonous, half an inch long; perianth- tube 

 three inches long, green at the lower part ; segments linear, rotate, a little longer than the tube, half an inch 

 broad. Corona funnel-shaped, two inches in length, and aboxrt the same in diameter at the irregularly-toothed 

 throat, where it spreads a little when the flower is fully expanded. Free portion of the filaments abruptly 

 incurved, as in Ismene, about an inch long; anther linear, yellow, under half an inch long. Style protruding 

 an inch and a half or two inches from the corona, decimate, greenish ; stigma capitate. — Botanical Magazine, 6436. 



Croton Warreni. A native of the South Sea Islands, introduced by Mr. B. S. 

 Williams. Amongst the many fine kinds of these handsome plants that have made their 

 appearance in late years, this is one of the best, having in addition to other desirable 

 properties the merit of being sufficiently distinct from others already in cultivation. 



It possesses a stout, free habit of growth, with arched, drooping leaves, from two to two and a half feet long, 

 and an inch or more broad ; ground-colour deep green, blotched and mottled with deep yellow, and ■ pink in 

 the young state, which, in this as in most of the similar coloured kinds, turns deep crimson as the foliage gets 

 older. 



