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NEW PLANTS IN THE 
pressed hairs, and divided in the border into 
four roundish, oblong, obtuse, uneven lobes, 
of which the two inner are the smallest. In 
the inside of the tube of the calyx are eight 
nearly sessile stamens in two rows, with nar- 
row sharp-pointed anthers. The ovary is 
smooth, stalked, one-celled, with a small fleshy 
scale at its base, and a single suspended ovule : 
it produces abruptly from its summit a very 
short cylindrical style, ended by a capitate 
hairy stigma. No species yet described 
approaches very nearly to this, which has 
been named after its enterprising discoverer. 
The seeds being unknown, it can only be 
conjectured that it belongs to the Mezereum 
division of the genus. It is a green-house, or 
perhaps half-hardy shrub, and grows freely in 
a mixture of sandy loam and peat. During 
summer an ample supply of water should be 
given, and air at all times when the weather 
is favourable. In winter it must be kept 
quite cool, in an airy part of vie house ; and 
being deciduous, very little water will be 
required during the absence of its leaves. It 
may be propagated by cuttings of half-ripe 
wood under ordinary treatment. It is a 
charming addition to our green-house plants, 
more especially since it appears to be well 
adapted for forcing. — Chusan Hills, Ningjio 
and Shanghae, Mr. Fortune, July, 1844. 
Deutzia staminea, (wing stamened Deutzia.) 
— It is stated by Dr. Wallich that this plant 
grows on the highest mountains of the great 
valley of Nepal, and in the province of 
Kamaon. Dr. Eoyle speaks of it as being 
common in Mussooree, and apparently well 
suited to English shrubberies. It is a small 
bush with deciduous ovate-lanceolate stalked 
leaves, finely serrated, dull-green and smooth 
on the upper side, whitish beneath. The 
flowers are pure white, somewhat larger than 
those of hawthorn, in terminal corymbose 
panicles. The calyx is small, white, with 
five small triangular teeth. The petals are 
oblong, and rather crumpled. The stamens 
have large winged edges produced upwards 
into a strong tooth. The whole plant has a 
feeble, somewhat balsamic smell. It is a small 
hardy shrub, growing well in the common 
garden soil, and easily increased by cuttings 
of the half-ripened slender young wood; is 
very pretty and flowers freely in May. — 
Raised from seed in 1841, from the 
Himalayas. 
Dielytra spectabilis, (showy Dielytra.) — 
This plant, which is beyond all comparison 
the handsomest of the natural order of Fume- 
worts, was first made known to Europeans by 
the Eusso- Siberian De Karamyschew, who, 
studying atUpsal, communicated it to Linnaeus. 
It does not, however, appear to have been 
seen alive until Mr. Fortune found it culti- 
vated by the Chinese, and brought it home 
with him. When in good health its stems 
grow one foot and a half high, and have three 
or four axillary racemes of beautiful flowers, 
each raceme being from four to six inches 
long. The flowers are a full inch long, and 
nearly three quarters of an inch wide, with 
the two saccate petals of a delicate rose-colour, 
and the intervening projecting narrow ones 
white with a purple tip. It is to be expected 
that the plant will be hardy like the others of 
its race, but too little is yet known of its 
habits. — Gardens in the North of China, 
Mr. Fortune. 
Edgworthia chrysantha, (golden-flowered 
Edgworthia.) — This is a dwarf soft- wooded 
shrub, throwing up rod-like dull green stems 
from its base, and bearing the leaves exclusively 
near their ends. The leaves are about eight 
or nine inches long, oblong-lanceolate, stalked, 
very dull green, and covered with fine hairs, 
so small and closely pressed to the surface 
that the naked eye fails to discern them. The 
flowers have not yet been produced in Eng- 
land ; but Mr. Fortune's Chinese drawings 
and specimens show them to be bright golden 
yellow, something less than an inch long, 
covered with exceedingly thick hair on the 
outside, and collected into balls about two 
inches in diameter at the ends of the shoots. 
He adds, that they are sweet-scented, and 
appear in Chusan in July. The limb of the 
calyx is divided into four smooth ovate obtuse 
lobes ; the tube contains eight sessile stamens, 
arranged in two lines, and with the anthers 
turned inwards. The ovary is covered with 
thick hairs, oblique, one-celled, with one sus- 
pended ovule, and a little emarginate scale 
on the upper side of its base. Its style is 
thread-shaped, and loses itself in a subulate 
stigma. The species is allied to Edgworthia 
(or Daphne) Gardneri, a Nepal plant with a 
similar habit, from which it differs in having 
longer and more slender flowers, larger flower- 
heads, and a much more silky hairiness on 
the outside of the flower. It is a green-house 
or half-hardy shrub ; it grows freely in a 
compost of three parts sandy loam, and one 
of turfy peat. A free drainage is necessary ; 
for although it requires an ample supply of 
water during the summer months, it is liable 
to damp off if this point is not properly 
attended to. For a few weeks in winter very 
little water is required. It will probably be 
multiplied without difficulty from cuttings of 
young wood. Being sweet-scented and a 
plant of free growth, it may be expected to 
prove a useful addition to our green-house or 
half-hardy plants belonging to the natural 
order of Daphnads. — Chusan, Mr. Fortune, 
April, 1845. 
Forsythia viridissima, (green Forsythia.) — 
