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NEW FLOWERS AND PLANTS, 
POLYGONUM VACCINIIFOLIUM. 
Polygonum vacciniifolium, Wallich (vacci- 
nium-leaved Polygonum). — Polygonaceae. 
The first notice of this plant appears to 
have been made by Dr. Wallich, in his splen- 
did work, the Plantce Asiaticce Rariores. It 
was subsequently referred to by Dr. Royle, 
in his Illustrations of Himalayan Botany. 
The latter states that it grows on the Hima- 
layan mountains over an extensive range, 
at from 7,000 to 13,000 feet of elevation. 
It is found to be perfectly hardy in the 
climate of England ; exceedingly well adapted 
for rockwork, which during the autumnal 
months it decorates Avith a profusion of its 
oblong heads of gay pink flowers. 
The habit of the species is trailing, the 
stems having a sub-shrubby and permanent 
character. They are furnished with alternate 
neat-looking foliage, the resemblance of which 
to some of the small-leaved whortle-berries 
Las suggested the specific name vacciniifolium ; 
these leaves are oblong, terminated by a little 
hardened point, dai'k green on the upper sur- 
face, glaucous beneath, furnished with sheath- 
ing stipules, which in this genus, and where 
they have the same tubular character, are 
called ochrea ; they are also bordered with 
very long bristles. The flowering branches 
rise to the height of three or four inches from 
the ground, each bearing from two to four 
narrow spikes, or close oblong heads of deep 
I'ose-coloured blossoms. These are produced 
profusely in autumn, and continue to retain 
their gay colours till affected by frost, which 
changes them to a brown hue. 
It was raised in the garden of the Horti- 
cultural Society, from seeds sent from the 
northern parts of India, in April 1848, by 
Captain William Munro. 
This pretty plant is perfectly hardy, grow- 
ing freely in well-drained loamy soil, and, by 
its trailing habit, is well adapted for planting 
on rock-work. It is propagated readily by 
means of cuttings. 
The engraving which accompanies these 
remarks, was prepared from a beautiful figure 
published by Dr. Royle. The cultivated plant 
appears, as yet, somewhat more slender. 
NEW FLOWERS AND PLANTS. 
^SCHYNANTHUS Paxtoni, Lvulley (Pax- 
ton's JEschynanth). — Gesneraceaa § Cyrtan- 
dreee. — A half-shrubby slio^y species allied 
to ^. ramosissimus. The branches are 
somewhat trailing ; the leaves large, oblong - 
lanceolate, convex, dark green, slightly marked 
on the undei' eide with impressed dots. The 
flowers are dull red ; the bracts are large ; 
the sepals large, oblong-obtuse, and divided 
to the base ; the tube of the corolla curved, 
widening upwards, with a flat four-lobed 
limb, the lobes nearly equal, the upper emar- 
ginate, the rest squared at the ends as if cut 
off. Probably a native of the Malay Archi- 
