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Goiidonia Javanica. Hooker. A tea-like stove plant from Java. Belongs to the 

 Natural Order of Theads. Flowers white, in the autumn. Introduced. by Messrs. Rollison. 

 (Fig. 90, a represents the calyx, style, and stigma.) 



Our Garden is indebted to Messrs. Rollison, of Tooting, for the plant of which a specimen is here figured. It waa 

 discovered by their collector in Java, probably in the mountains ; and has much the general habit of Thca or Camellia, 

 when its blossoms appear, in August and September. Our plant is about two feet high, branched, and generally glabrous. 

 Branches terete. Leaves alternate, elliptical-lanceolate, coriaceous, evergreen, acuminated, entire, below tapering into 

 a short petiole. Peduncles solitary, axillary, single-flowered, from the base of jnost of the upper leaves, and shorter than 

 the leaves, erect, bearing two or three deciduous, spathulate, green bracteas below the calyx. Calyx of five very concave 

 rotundato-elliptical, erect, slightly hairy sepals. Petals five, obovate, white, spreading, obliquely twisted. Stamens very 

 numerous. Ovary globose, obscurely five'-lobed, five-celled, hairy. Style columnar. Stigma peltate, of five large, 

 rounded, somewhat leafy, rays or lobes, the centre umbilicated. Fruit the size 

 of a large garden-pea, globose, depressed at the top, half five-valved, woody. 

 Not being aware of its locality, we have treated it as a stove plant ; but, judging 

 from the nature of many of its allies, we may be right in presuming that it is 

 from an elevated and temperate region, and if so, it would probably succeed in a 

 warm greenhouse. It grows readily in loam and peat or leaf-mould, and is easily 

 increased by cuttings. — Bot. Mag., t. 4539. 



Helichrysttm fhigidum. Sir J. D. Hooker, A compact, 

 dwarf growing Alpine from Corsica that has been grown and 

 flowered with Messrs. Backhouse ijT 

 the York Nurseries. The treatment 

 most likely to suit it will be a well- 

 drained elevated position in free 

 porous soil. 



A tufted, low herb, stems three to 

 four inches long, decumbent, slender, spread- 

 ing from the perennial root, then ascending, 

 clothed with soft silky silvery hairs. Leaves 

 one -fourth to one -third of an inch long, 

 lower much shorter, loosely imbricating all 

 round the stem and branches from the 

 base to the tips. Heads solitary, terminal, 

 sessile, one-third to two-thirds of an inch in 

 diameter. Involucre obconic ; bracts linear, 

 oblong, obtuse, imbricate in many series, 

 woolly, the innermost half an inch long and 

 spreading, opaque and white for half their 

 length. Receptacles connate, smooth, naked. 

 Flowers of the ray in several series, tubular, 

 slender, three-toothed; of the disk larger, 

 narrowly funnel-shaped, five-lobed, glabrous. 

 Anther cells with slender lobes. Style arms 

 truncate. Pappus hairs free, in one series' 

 very slightly thickened towards the tip, 

 scabrid. — Botanical Magazine, 6515. 



Salvia Pitcheeii. A blue 

 flowered kind, very handsome, of 

 small or medium growth. It is an 

 excellent subject for pot culture, 

 flowering in the autumn months. It is easily grown from spring struck cuttings. It was 

 shown by Mr. Cannell, in September, 1880, at South Kensington, and was much admired. 



