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having erect flowers of another form, and almost sessile crenale 
J eaves of a larger size. 
If the flowers are such as Mr. Lobb describes them, this must 
be a very pretty shrub; for they crowd every branch, stand erect, 
and therefore display to the best advantage any beauty they may 
possess. 
The Small Leaved Thibaudia. 
( Thibaudia microphylla.. Liiidl.) 
Sp. Char. — An evergreen shrul), with furrowed smooth 
branches. Leaves roundisli oblong, l)lunt or relume, 
coriaceous, vcinless, nearly sessile, ■wiili a few min- 
ute scattered hairs on the underside. Peduncles sol. 
itary, axillary, one-flowered, erect, much longer 
than the leaves. Corolla conical, with a very small 
5-cleft orifice * 
An evergreen shrub, now growing 
in the nursery of Messrs. Veitch, of 
Exeter, who have raised it from 
seeds gathered in Peru by Mr. William 
Lobb. It is said by him to have been 
found at an elevation of 12,000 feet, 
and to bear scarlet flowers. In his 
dried specimens they appear to be deep 
purple. The small leathery dark green 
leaves resemble those ot the Box tree, 
and give the species a peculiar neat 
appearance. It will probably prove 
to be a hardy greenhouse plant. The 
specimens at Exeter are at present too 
young to flower. — Gardeners' Chro- 
nicle 
*For the meaning of these technical terras see 
Y\CT, 21. Lindsley's Glossary. 
Double White Flowering Plum-tree Leaved Spirjea. 
Spircea prunifolia flare pleno. 
The genus Spirea furnishes quite a number of very pretty 
flowering shrubs and plants, of which the Opulifolia hyperici- 
folia, Salicifolia, Sarbifolia and others among the shruhty — and 
Filipendula, Mmaria and Anincus among the herbaceous species — 
are well known to all cultivators of ornamental plants. Don- 
(ralpii and Lindleyana are both shrubs recently introduced, but 
none of them equals the Prunifolia fiore pleno, recently introduced 
into Europe by Dr. Siebold, who first brought the splendid Japan 
Lilies, and other rare and beautiful things from Japan. Mr. Van 
HouTTE, the distinguished Belgian Horticulturist secured the 
whole stock from Dr. Siebold, and has been cultivating and 
selling them through Europe at one guinea per plant. We have 
jnst received a few plants, and hope to test its merrits and hardi- 
