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native of New Zealand, producing about May or June brilliant yellow flowers, 
which make a conspicuous show. Its habit is much like the other New Zealand | 
species, and therefore requires the same attention. i 
E. nitida, or shining- leaved Edwardsia. This is a pretty shrub of about 
eig-ht feet high, native of the Island of Bourbon, introduced to this country about 
fourteen years ago. It requires the heat of the stove, and, if potted in soil com- 
posed of a mixture of loam sand and peat, will grow well. The flowers are yellow. 
The number of leaflets to each leaf varies from twenty to twenty-five, of an elliptic, 
somewhat ovate obtuse shape, with a small notch at the end and silvery on both 
surfaces, wings of the flower oblong-, with the dorsal marg-in straight. Legume 
hairy. Cuttings of the young wood put in sand, under a bell-glass in heat, will pro- 
pagate freely. 
E. denudata, or naked Edwardsia, a shrubby plant, also a native of the Island 
of Bourbon, requires the same treatment as the other stove species. Leaves com- 
posed of from seventeen to twenty-one elliptic obtusely-shaped leaflets, under 
surface of a pale colour, clothed with silky hairs ; upper surface smooth, clothed 
with rusty shining wool. Legume very thickly covered with small hairs (tomentose). 
The two stove species will do well treated as other stove plants of a similar habit, 
none of them are very liable to be assailed by insects, still it is necessary to keep a 
vigilant eye upon them in case these intruders should make their appearance. 
The hardier sorts growing in the open air, must be objects of attention during the 
winter, that is, if the weather be very severe they will require protection, which will 
be readily rendered, if the plants are growing against a trellis, by nailing a mat or 
two over them. But if planted on the lawn or border, shelter in this case will not 
be so easily alforded. The most available method is to form a covering by wreath- 
ing hoops together of sufficient dimensions, and covering the whole with garden or 
straw mats, observing to give air and light at every opportunity, through the day, 
and cover them at the approach of night ; if they are carefully attended to in these 
respects they will stand very well. 
NEW AND RARE PLANTS 
FIGURED IN THE LEADING BOTANICAL PERIODICALS, AND FLORISTS' 
MAGAZINE FOR MARCH. 
Botanical Register. Edited by Dr. Lindley, each number containing 
eight figures; coloured 4^., plain 3^. ; and corresponding letter-press. 
British Flower-Garden. Edited by Mr. David Don. Containing four 
plates ; coloured 3^., plain 2s. 3d. ; with corresponding letter-press. 
Botanical Magazine. Edited by Dr. Hooker, each number containing eight 
plates ; coloured Ss. 6d., plain 3*. ; and corresponding letter-press. 
Florists' Magazine. By F. W. Smith. Containing four monthly plates, 
highly coloured ; several plates with two figures ; large size 4^., small 2s. 6d. ; and 
corresponding letter-press. 
Of the above figures, we have only selected such as are new and very rare ; and 
