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FLORICULTURAL NOTICES. 
of grafting. The flowers of C. ventricosum are full four inches in diameter, with yellow-green 
sepals and petals, and a large white undivided lip." Those of the present variety are principally 
of a deep-purplish chocolate colour. In the stove of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, where 
figures were made, ' ' the respective varieties have hitherto continued constant, neither of them 
showing an approach to the other kind." The transition is one of those marvels in Orchidacete 
which seem specially designed to perplex botanists, and cannot be accounted for by any known 
laws. It certainly helps to throw around them a wonderful charm of novelty. Bot. Mag. 4054. 
DiPLOL.(E^NA Dampie^ri. " A singular Rutaceous plant, with flowers collected into a capitulum 
like the Compositse, but which, when examined, exhibit a very diff'erent structure. These flowers 
are fully produced in the greenhouse in the month of May, and have a very pretty appearance 
among the rather gloomy foliage. It is a native of Western Australia. Dampier appears to 
have first discovered it in Hawkes' Bay. It was collected during the voyage of Captain Baudin, 
at Terre d' Endracht, of the French voyagers ; and both seeds and specimens have been sent by 
Mr. James Drummond, from the Swan River Settlement, from the former of which our plants were 
raised at the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew. Mr. Allan Cunningham named a plant Diplolwna 
Dampieri^ which he gathered at Dirk Hartog's Island ; but this proves to be the D. grandiflora^ 
of Desfoiitaines ; the only other described species. A third has, however, been found in the 
Swan River Colony, by Mr. James Drummond, which may be called D. angustifoUa, This has 
much larger flowers than D. Dampieri, and the leaves are very narrow, with revolute margins." 
Bot. Mag. 4059. 
Euo'nymus japo'nicus. *' In all respects this corresponds with the account given by Thunberg 
of the Iso Curoggi, or black shore- tree, of the Japanese, even to the sporting into a silver blotched 
variety, also in our gardens. He says, it is in Japan a bush about as high as a man. With us 
it is not yet higher than three or four feet, but it has all the appearance of becoming much larger. 
Although no beauty is to be found in its flowers, this plant is of the same kind of value as the 
common Laurel, Phillyreas, and Alafcernus, being a hardy evergreen shrub, with much of the 
appearance of a small-leaved orange. It is true that in very severe winters it is liable to be 
killed to the ground, but so are the Bay, the Ilex, and others ; it, however, springs up again, and 
rapidly forms a new bush. When older it will probably become more hardy. It is easily increased 
from cuttings of the half-ripened wood, placed under a hand-glass or in a close frame, and shaded 
in summer. It flowers in July and August, but has not as yet produced fruit. There are two 
varieties, one with silver striped, the other with gold striped leaves ; but the latter is very subject 
to run back to the green-leaved, while the silver striped hardly ever changes. It is called in 
many places ^ Chinese Box,' — - the name it bore when first introduced from Belgium." 
Bot. Reg. 6. 
Gomphre'na pulche'lla. " Many attempts have been made to introduce into our collections 
the beautiful Gomphrena officinalis, from Brazil, but it is believed they have all failed. The next 
handsomest species yet known to us is the one now represented, which Mr. Veitch, of Exeter, 
imported from Monte Video, where it was first found by Sellon. It cannot fail to remind of our 
own well-known Gomphrena globosa ; but the heads of the flowers are much larger, and of a 
brighter, though paler hue ; and whereas the colour ot the common Globe-everIasti?ig is due to the 
floral bracteas, which are longer than the pale-green flowers, here, the coloured flowers are much 
larger than the bracteas, and give to the heads altogether a different character. It flowered in 
July, in Mr. Veitch's greenhouse. It appears to be an annual; and, in all probability, seedling 
plants put out in the early summer, would flourish in the open ground, and prove a very great 
additional ornament to our flower-borders." The leaves are opposite, lanceolate, very acute, and 
covered with silky hairs. The flowers are rose-coloured, on long, one-headed peduncles. The 
stems are nearly upright, and grow from one to two feet high. They branch, and are clothed 
with silky hairs. Bot. Mag. 4064. 
Hibbe'rtia perfolia^ta. ^' This is really a beautiful Swan River Shrub, particularly well 
adapted to pot-culture, on account of the neatness of its appearance at all seasons. According to 
Baron Hugel, it has a tendency to climb, but that has not been observed in our gardens. When 
it first flowered it was of one uniform glaucous hue, almost as much so as the fruit of the plum 
when ripe and covered with bloom ; but that appearance has gone off, and the foliage is now of a 
deep rich glossy green. While the beautiful yellow flowers are as large and showy, as in the old 
