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to be quite unlike the B. japonica in the form 
of its leaflets, for Thunberg describes them 
in the latter as being ovate and but an inch 
and half long, whereas in this they are nar- 
jowly lanceolate, and fully four inches long. 
It is obvious also that the details of the inflo- 
rescence of the two are very different. This 
6pecies forms a deep green smooth bush, with 
from three to four pairs of leaflets, and an odd 
one to each leaf. The leaflets are about four 
inches long, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, 
with shallow distinct spiny serratures. The 
veins are scarcely visible on the upper side, 
and very slightly prominent on the under. As 
the plant only reached the garden in April 
last, no flowers have been seen ; but it appears 
from Mr. Fortune's dried specimens, that they 
appear in terminal panicled racemes less than 
half the length of the leaflets. The flowers 
are small, closely arranged, and of a yellow 
colour. Mr. Fortune has furnished the fol- 
lowing memorandum concerning it : — " This 
species is an evergreen bush, 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 yel- 
low, which contrasts well with the deep green 
leaves. It was found in a nursery garden 
near the city of Shanghae, in the north of 
China. In all probability it is an inhabitant 
of those provinces which are several degrees 
farther north than Keangsoo, in which Shan- 
ghae is situated, for it is extremely rare in 
this part of China, and evidently not indi- 
genous to it. If this be the case, there can 
be little doubt that it will be perfectly hardy 
in Europe, and will be a very nice addition to 
our collections of hardy evergreens. It will 
grow well enough in any common garden soil, 
and I dare say will be found to be easily pro- 
pagated either by cuttings or layers. It will 
be a good plant for a rock work, or for a 
small neat garden where large straggling 
shrubs are unsuitable." 
Campanula nobilis, (noble Bellwort.) — 
The root-leaves of this line herbaceous plant 
are deeply heart-shaped, of a bright pale- 
green, and placed on footstalks from six to 
nine inches long, forming a large tuft. From 
among them, and to rather more than twice 
their height, rises the flowering stem, which 
branches a little at the bottom, and bears upon 
its divisions several fine nodding flowers, 
which seem to be the largest yet seen among 
the genus Campanula. They are something 
like those of Canarina, nearly three inches 
long, and one and a half in_ diameter. The 
corolla is pale purple on the outside, and 
nearly smooth, but paler within, abundantly 
sprinkled with bright purple dots, and closely 
covered with long delicate horizontal hairs. 
It is allied to the Canterbury Bell (Campanula 
medium"), and like it has a calyx furnished 
with reflexed appendages ; but its stigma is 
trifid, on which account it more nearly ap- 
proaches the Sarmatian and Dotted Bell- 
worts (C sarmatica and punctata). It is, 
however, perfectly distinct, and a grand ad- 
dition to handsome hardy herbaceous plants. 
Hitherto it lias been treated as a green-house 
plant, but Mr. Fortune is of opinion that it 
will prove hardy. It grows freely in rough 
sandy peat, and, like most of the species of 
Campanula, requires an ample supply of water 
during the spring months. It may be abun- 
dantly multiplied by dividing its roots, and 
possibly from seeds also. — Chusan and Shang- 
hae, sent in flkiy, and June, 1 844, by Mr. 
Fortune. 
Clematis hexasepala, (six sepalled Clematis.) 
— This is a little twining plant, with shining 
nearly smooth ternate or biternate leaves, 
whose petioles twine round any small body 
with which they may come in contact. The 
leaflets are cordate-ovate, coarsely serrated, 
and often three-lobed. The flowers are small, 
pale green, very sweet scented, and appear in 
threes and fours from the axils of the leaves. 
Their stalks are long and hairy, and each has 
a pair of small bracts below the middle. The 
sepals are very uniformly six in number, of a 
narrowly oblong form, and spreading so as to 
form a small green star. Contrary to the 
usual structure of the genus, the stamens are 
constantly six only in number, and about half 
as long as the sepals. The late Mr. Allan 
Cunningham gathered it in the northern 
island of New Zealand, but it was first found 
by Sir Joseph Banks in 1769, and a drawing 
of it is said to be preserved in the Banksian 
Library. It is a hardy green-house plant, re- 
quiring a light loamy soil to grow in, and is 
easily increased by cuttings of the half-ripened 
wood. It only requires the protection of a cold 
pit or frame during winter, and flowers abun- 
dantly in April. Although its blossoms are 
green and inconspicuous, it is far from an un- 
important species, on account of its blooming 
freely, and being very sweet scented. 
Daphne Fortuni, (Mr. Fortune's Daphne.) 
— This is a small downy-branched bush, with 
thin deciduous opposite and alternate ovate- 
oblong and oblong leaves covered with very 
soft fine hairs. The flowers, which appeared 
for the first time in January, 1846, are pale 
bluish lilac, arranged in clusters of lour upon 
brandies scarcely beginning to put forth their 
leaves. They are rather more than an inch 
long, covered externally with soft, closely- 
