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by the Horticultural Society of Ghent. The species is very handsome, and would look well among a collection of Orchids, 

 the climate of which is precisely what it wants. — Flore des Serves, t. 569. 



M. Planchon, in the article from which this extract is taken, and some others, treats at length of the plants usually 

 combined under the name of Dractena. He forms the new genus Drac^nopsis upon Dracaena auslralis of Hooker ; 

 points out D. ferrea of Linnaeus, or D. terminalis of Jacquin, as the type of another which he afterwards names 

 Calodracon ; and he adopts the genus Charlwoodia. 



Fortlanbia platantha. Hooker. A handsome white-flowered hothouse shrub of 

 unknown origin. Belongs to the Cinchonads. Blossoms in July. (Kg. 106.) 



Messrs. Lucombe and Co. received, and have cultivated this in the stove, under the name of " Portlandia grandiflora, 

 fine variety ; " but they remark', that both in its foliage and in the flowers it differs considerably from that species. 

 "It flowers," say these nur- 

 serymen, "in a very dwarf 

 state, and is almost always in 

 blossom," an observation con- 

 firmed by the continual flower- 

 ing, during the summer of 

 1849, of a small plant not 

 more than a foot and a half 

 high, which they sent to the 

 Royal Gardens, and from 

 which a figure was taken in 

 July, 1850. A shrub, a foot 

 and a half high, erect, branch- 

 ed, smooth. Leaves opposite, 

 nearly sessile, elliptical-obo- 

 vate, acute, evergreen, leathery, 

 full glossy gx-een, entire. Sti- 

 pules broadly triangular, ob- 

 tuse. Pedicels very short, 

 axillary, solitary, often oppo- 

 site. Ovary long 4-angled, 

 2-celled ; cells with many 

 ovules. Limb of the calyx of 

 four spreading, leafy, lanceo- 

 late lobes. Corolla white, not 

 more than half the length of 

 that of P . grand! flora, broadly 

 funnel-shaped, approaching to 

 bell-shaped, 5-ribbed. Limb 

 of five spreading ovate lobes, 

 their margins revolute. Fila- 

 ments downy in their lower 



half. A tropical shrub with fine glossy leaves and showy white flowers, worthy of a place in every collection of woody 

 stove-plants. It grows freely in a mixture of loam and leaf-mould or peat soil. It must be kept in a moist tropical 

 stove, the necessary precautions of watering and shading during clear summer sunshine being carefully attended to. 

 It is propagated by cuttings placed under a bell-glass, and plunged in moist bottom-heat. — Dot. Mag., t. 4534. 



Fortune's Double Yellow Eose. A deciduous half-hardy scrambling plant, with buff 

 semi-double flowers. Pound cultivated in China. Introduced by the Horticultural Society. 



This is a straggling plant, with the habit of R. arvensi-s, but with handsomer though deciduous leaves. The branches 

 are dull green, strongly defended by numerous short hooked prickles, without setse. The leaves are smooth, in about 

 three pairs, bright shining green above, rather glaucous beneath. The flowers are as large as those of the Common China 

 Rose, semi-double, solitary, dull buff, tinged with purple. The petals are loose, and the whole aspect of the flower that 

 of a slightly domesticated wilding. The bush looks like a cross between the China Rose and some scrambling species, 

 such as our European R. arvensis. That species being however unknown in Asia, the plant before us must have had 

 some other origin, concerning which it is fruitless to inquire. In its present state this variety has little claim to English 

 notice ; but it may be a good breeder, and would certainly be much handsomer in a warmer climate than ours. 



