that here the emanation, instead of illuminating space, embalms the sweetest of odours. This variety, 
which was raised from seed by M. Marchot, secretary to the Societe des Conferences Horticoh of 
Liege has been named " Immortalite de Louise M arie," in order that while being everywhere propa- 
gated and grown, it might recall the great loss which Belgium has lately experienced in the death of 
her queen. — La Belgiquc Horticole, 125. 
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%m am llnrr plants. 
DoitBEY.v vrBotxirLORA, Bojer. Viburnum-flowered Donibeya (Bot. Mag., t. 4568). — Nat. Ord., Byttneriaceai 
§ Dombeyeae. — A small tree requiring stove accommodation. It forms, when it has space to do so, a bushy head 
of copious hairy branches, with large heart-shaped threc-lobed leaves, covered with soft hairs. The flower stalks 
a span or more long, spring from the upper axds, and bear a close dichotomously divided corymb of small white 
flowers, which are not very attractive. From the Comorin Islands, near Madagascar. Introduced before 1S50. 
Flowers in February. Eoyal Botanic Garden, Kew. 
Medixilla javaxexsis, Blumc. Javanese Medinilla (Bot. Mag., t. 4569). — Nat. Ord., Melastomacea; § 
Melastomea?. — A handsome evergreen stove shrub, erect, with four-sided branches, large sessde, elliptic ovate, 
pointed, entire, five-nerved leaves, dark green above, paler beneath. The flowers form small compact panicles, 
and are of a pale flesh colour, with dark purple anthers. From Java. Introduced in 1S49. Flowers in winter. 
Messrs. Rollisson of Tooting. 
■Wahlenbergia vixciEPLOBA, Deeaisne. Yinca-flowcred 'Wahlenbergia (Paxt. Fl. Gard., ii. 13). — Xat. Ord., 
Campanulacere § Lightfooteoe. — Syn. Campanula vincamora, Vcntcnat. — A pretty half-hardy perennial herbaceous 
plant, succeeding well, treated as an annual, and blooming under good management in about six weeks after 
sowing. It is a dwarf slender branching plant, having long narrow toothed-edged leaves, and azure-coloured 
white-eyed five-lobed flowers, spread out to an inch and a half across, with a very shallow bell ; the flowers are 
pale on the outside, bright blue inside, painted near the middle and at the base with a line of delicate white hairs. 
From New Holland. Introduced ? Flowers in summer. » 
Passlflora pexduliflora, Bcrtoloni. Drooping-blossomed Passion-flower (Bot. Mag., t. 4565). — Nat. Ord> 
Passifloracea:. — A curious free-growing stove climber, without hairs, the young branches striated, and bearing 
copious, curiously-shaped, short-stalked leaves, which are rounded, approaching to wedge-shaped at the base, 
truncate at the apex, and are more or less distinctly three-lobed, three-nerved, with a row of five or six glands on 
each side the midrib. The flowers are solitary or in pairs from the axils, pendulous, pale-yellow green, about two 
inches across, with a coronet of about a dozen short erect club-shaped deep-orange rays ; the column of stamens is 
proportionally very long, and the anthers are green. From Jamaica. Introduced about 1S48. Flowers in spring 
and summer. Royal Botanic Garden, Kew. 
Veronica Andrrsonii of Gardens. Anderson's Veronica (Paxt. Fl. Gard., ii., t. 3S). — Nat. Ord., Scrophvda- 
riaceoe $ Rhinanthidea;. — A soft- wooded shrubby greenhouse plant of considerable beauty ; a garden hybrid, raised 
from V. salicifolia, fertilized by V. speciosa, and exactly intermediate in its form, colour, and habit of growth. The 
leaves arc oblong-lanceolate ; the flowers come in thick tapering elongated spikes, opening purple and changing to 
white, so that when in perfection the spikes present the two colours in a remarkably striking manner. A garden 
hybrid, raised by J. Anderson, Esq., of Maryficld, near Edinburgh, in 1848. Flowers in autumn. 
LirriA AitGYRorHYLLA, Schauer. Silvery-leaved Lippia. — Nat. Ord., VerbenacetB. — A small sub-shrubby 
plant, with obtusely-tetragonal hairy branches, and opposite or tcrnate leaves, two to four inches long, of an oblong 
acuminate form, sharply serrated, with scabrous hairs above, and silky beneath. The flowers grow in little 
globular or oblong heads as large as a cherry ; the corolla is white, becoming yellowish at the throat. The native 
country is not known, but it has been distinguished by Dr. Schauer among the plants cultivated in the Botanic 
Garden of Berlin. 
LirriA A8PBMUMA, Chamisso. Roughest Lippia. — Nat. Ord., Verbcnaccrc. — A perennial herbaceous species, 
with a creeping rhizome, and erect somewhat four-angled stems, growing to the length of two feet, baying oblong- 
lanceolate, coarsely-toothed leaves, and sub-globose heads of yellow blossoms. Native of the humid prairie., of 
Brazil. Cultivated in the Botanic Garden of St. Petersburg. 
Deutzia oracii.ls, ZiKcarini (not of Gardens). ' Slender Dcutzia {Paxt. Fl. Gard., ii. 7). — Nat Orel, 
Philadelphaceaj. — A fine deciduous shrub, said to grow naturally five or six feet high. The branches are long. 
flexible, and drooping, especially when in flower. The leaves are small, wedge-shaped, lanceolate or ovate- 
lanceolate, serrated, covered with line starry hairs. The lateral branchlets arc terminated by graceful racemes of 
simple snow-white Sowers, which are borne in profusion. The shrub is hardy. From Japan, Introduced by 
l>r. Von Siebold to Belgium. Flowers in spring. Mr. J. Baumann of Ghent 
Polygonum Brunonts, WaWeh. Brown's Bistort (Paxt. Fl. Gard., ii. t. 37).— Nat. Ord., Polygonacote $ 
I'ulygoncav A pretty hardy herbaceous perennial, with creeping stems, rising upwards at i lie points, and thoro 
bearing narrow elongated somewhat interrupted spikes of small rose-coloured Bowers, Bomewbat resembling the 
allied l'ersicaria of our ditches. The leaves are smooth, oblong-lanceolate, narrowed towards the base, and 
slightly serrated on the margins. From the mountains of Northern India. Introduced in lsis. Flowers in 
autumn. 
