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mid-winter, beginning to flower. It is singular that as far as they have yet blossomed the plants 
have proved only male-flowered, except the tall one of Mr. Veitch, which has one cluster of 
female flowers at the top, and of which two are represented." — Bot. Mag. 4281. 
Be'rberis Fortu'ni. " This species is an evergreen shrub, with pretty pinnated and serrated 
leaves of a dark-green colour, and grows generally from two to four feet high, in the north of 
China, where it flowers in the autumn months. It produces its flowers both from the points of the 
young shoots and from the sides of the old stems ; the spikes are short, generally six or seven 
together, and the colour of the flowers is yellow. It was found by Mr. Fortune, in a nursery 
garden near the city of Shanghae, and will probably prove hardy. It grows freely in common 
garden soil." — Hort. Jour, vol i., 231. 
Cala'ntiie curculigoi'des. " A bright-yellow Calantlie is an unexpected novelty, and this 
species, which was previously known only from bad dried specimens, proves to be one of the hand- 
somest of its race. The flowers have a firm waxy texture, and do not wither so soon as those of 
some species ; they are much yellower and finer than in C. densiflora ; all their beauty fades? 
however, in drying, when the species becomes one of the least attractive. The specimen now 
figured was the best we have seen in a living state, but it is nothing compared to what it will become. 
We have now before us wild specimens, collected by the late Mr. Griffith at Malacca, with ten inches 
of flowers, and a further part of the inflorescence is lost. It is not too much to say that the 
flowering spike of C. curculigoides may be expected to be a foot long. The species has been found 
exclusively in the Straits of Malacca, whence Messrs. Loddiges received it. It flowered at 
Hackney, in November, 1845, and maybe expected to require more heat than some of the sorts." 
—Bot. Reg. 8. 
Calosco'rdum nerinefo^lium. " This plant was sent to Spofforth by J. Trevor Alcock, Esq. 3 
who received it from Chusan when that island was occupied by our troops, and it has since 
flowered three seasons. Dr. Herbert distinguishes Caloscordum from Allium, Pseudoscordum,&c, 
1, by the form and articulation of the tube, which includes the ovary ; 2, by the filaments being 
inserted deeper, and not having a membranous dilatation ; 3, by the withering style ; and 4, by the 
recurved direction of the perianth." It is a small bulbous plant, having linear leaves, and bearing 
rose-coloured floAvers. — Bot. Reg. 5. 
Chiri^ta sine'nsis. A plant introduced from China in 1844, through the Horticultural 
Society, and of which Mr. Backhouse, Nurseryman, York, writes : — " The largest we had this 
season had a succession of upwards of twenty flower-stems, and some of the strongest of these had 
as many flowers opening in succession ; the panicles being dichotomous and flowering in the axil 
of each fork. Some of the stems were nine inches high. The plant is easily propagated in moist 
sand in a warm humid atmosphere ; any portion of a leaf will emit leaves and roots. The young 
plant will, however, be probably a year in flowering, and the progress of the scape is at first very 
slow. The plants succeed best in a moist stove near the glass, but require to be shaded when the 
sun is hot, otherwise their leaves are sometimes scorched. By having plants indifferent tempera- 
tures, the flowering may be kept up many months; but a common greenhouse scarcely brings them 
to perfection. We have not ripened seeds, the capsules having been removed to keep up the 
flowering."— Bot. Mag. 4284. 
Cordyline Ru'mphii. " A greenhouse plant of graceful habit, which has long been an 
inhabitant of a cool stove at Kew Gardens, where it bears its copious greenish- white flowers, 
succeeded by the orange berries, in July ; but whence introduced is not recorded. The figure of 
Rumphius, above quoted, leaves no doubt of that being the same plant ; it is consequently a native 
of Amboyna. Blume's description and reference to Rumphius make it equally certain that our 
plant is the Sauseviera fruticosa of that author, and consequently a native of the e mountains of 
Java ;' but equally certain is it that neither in habit nor in essential character can it be referred 
to Sauseviera. Its place is near Dracaena and Cordyline. If D. Draco be the type of the former 
genus, I should be unwilling to associate this with the true ' Dragon's blood with Cordyline it 
sufficiently accords in habit and in essential characters, save that the seeds are, in the state of the 
ovules, even always solitary in each cell, whereas they ought to be numerous, as shown in Dracosna 
australis (Bot. Mag., tab. 2835), now referred to Cordyline. In all probability this plant will con- 
stitute a new genus, in which the inflated and rugose filaments of the stamens contribute to afford 
characters." Syn., Terminalia angustifolia—Bot. Mag. 4279. 
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