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NEW PLANTS AND SHRUBS. 
gardener to Sir P. Egerton, Bart, of Oulton 
Park, Cheshire. 
Clematis graveolens, Lindley, (heavy 
scented Virgin's hower.) — Ranuneulaceas § 
Clematideas. — A slender-growing hardy climb- 
ing plant, quite smooth, with twice or thrice 
ternate leaves, bearing small three-lobed 
leaflets on long straggling foot-stalks. The 
flowers are solitary, at or near the end of the 
branches, cream-coloured or pale yellow, 
rather pretty, consisting of four oblong-obtuse 
recurved sepals; they have a heavy scent, 
which is more disagreeable than pleasant. It 
was collected by Capt. Wm. Munro, in Chinese 
Tartary, at the Snowy Passes, at an elevation 
of 12,000 feet, in October, 1844, and flowered 
in the garden of the Horticultural Society in 
1846. 
Clematis hexasepala, De CandoUe, (six- 
petaled Virgin's bower.) — This is a slender 
twining plant, requiring only the protection of 
a cool green-house. The leaves are opposite, 
slender, and composed of three leaflets (some- 
times they are biternary, that is, the leaflets 
themselves are composed of three pieces): from 
the axils of these leaves, the flowers are freely 
produced in clusters of three and four ; they 
are small and pale green, consisting of six 
segments or sepals, and are very sweet scented, 
which property, and the profusion in which 
they are produced in the month of April, are 
its chief recommendations. It is a native of 
New Zealand, and was reared in the garden 
of the Horticultural Society in 1844, from 
seeds presented by J. E. Gowen, Esq. It is 
sometimes called C. hexapetala. 
Clematis smilacifolia, Wullich, (smilax- 
leaved Virgin's bower.) — A shrubby climbing 
plant, of strong growth, with very large cor- 
date-ovate pointed leaves, which have glandular 
teeth ; it has panicles, axillary or terminal, 
of singular flowers, the sepals of which are re- 
flexed, downy, and rusty on the. outer side, 
black-purple and smooth on the inner surface; 
a bunch of white filaments occupies the centre 
of the flowers; they are very sweet. The 
plants bloom in June and July. It is a native 
of mountains in Java, and also of Nepal, and 
requires a green-house. It however grows 
freely out-doors in summer, and may prove 
nearly hardy. Introduced in 1845, by Messrs. 
Veitch, of Exeter, from Java. It is also 
called C. glandulosa. 
Clerodendron sinuatum, Hooker, (sinu- 
ate-leaved Clerodendron.) — Verbenaceae. — A 
fine stove shrub of dwarf habit, with opposite 
ovate, or ovate-oblong downy leaves, and 
solitary many-flowered corymbs of flowers, 
which are collected into large roundish heads 
at the end of almost every branch ; the flowers 
are pure white, salver-shaped, and highly 
fragrant It blooms in the summer, and was 
received by Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and Co. 
of Exeter, from Sierra Leone, where it was 
discovered by Mr. Whitfield. Introduced 
about 1844, and bloomed in 1846. 
Collania andimarcana, Herbert, (Andi- 
marcan Collania.) — Amaryllidaceoa \ Alstro- 
merieos. — A tall growing straggling (or climb- 
ing) half-hardy perennial, nearly related to 
the Alstromerias and Bomarias. It has rather 
long lanceolate leaves of a glaucous hue, and 
twisted at the footstalk, and the apex of the 
stem is deflexed, bearing a drooping umbel of 
racemes of cylinder-shaped flowers, two inches 
long, which consist of six straight segments, 
the outer three orange-red tipped with dark- 
green, the others yellow tipped with green. 
It was introduced from Peru by Messrs. Veitch, 
in 1845 ; and is also found on the lofty moun- 
tains of Andimarca. It blooms in the sum- 
mer months. 
Combretum Pincianum, HooJ/er, (Mr. 
Pince's Combretum.) — Conibretaceas § Com- 
bretea?.) — A stove shrub, with some tendency 
towards a climbing habit, but in its native 
country forming a dense bush of about six 
feet high, loaded with blossoms. It has large 
obovate oblong leaves, a foot long. No flowers 
have yet been produced in this country, but 
the panicles of flowers in the wild specimens 
measure a foot and a half, clothing the copious 
terminal branches with innumerable red, or 
purplish-red blossoms, with long red stamens 
and styles. It was introduced in 1845 (?) by 
Mr. Whitfield from Sierre Leone, and is cul- 
tivated in the Exeter nursery, by Messrs. Lu- 
combe, Pince, & Co. 
Crtptomeria japonica, D. Don, (Japan 
Cedar.) — Pinaceae (Coniferse) § Cupresseos. — 
A very beautiful hardy evergreen tree. In 
Japan it grows from sixty to a hundred feet m 
height, and four or five feet in diameter, with 
a pyramidal shaped head, and rather erect or 
horizontal branches. In a young state it re- 
sembles Araucaria Cunninghami, but the latter 
has vertical branches placed at regular dis- 
tances, while Cryptomeria has alternate spiral 
branches. The leaves are oval-shaped, incur- 
ved, and arranged in a spiral manner. The 
plant grows abundantly about Shanghae, 
and in other places in the north of China, and 
! there is little doubt that it will prove hardy in 
I England. Mr. Fortune sent seeds from Shang- 
i hae in 1844, from which the first living plants 
1 that have been seen in this country were raised. 
Ctjphea cordata, Ruiz and Pavon, (large 
red-flowered Cuphea.) — Lythracea? § Lythrea?. 
— A very handsome sub- shrubby plant, with 
herbaceous downy erect stems. The leaves are 
opposite, ovate, the lower ones rarely sub- 
cordate-ovate ; the largest are two inches long, 
gradually becoming smaller, and passing in- 
sensibly into bracteas as they approach the 
